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" Texas is a pretty free state. "

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" Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case. "

" There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album. "

" Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us. "

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" There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio. "

" The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning. "

" Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything. "

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" We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do. "

" Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial. "

Entrepreneurial

" At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love. "

" In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better. "

" What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool. "

" Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it. "

" We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery. "

Plastic Surgery

" You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond. "

" We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves. "

" I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years. "

" I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time. "

" People my age don't always know where their music comes from. "

" A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you. "

" Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States. "

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" Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like. "

" I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work. "

" There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry. "

" 'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it. "

" Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those. "