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" 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. "

Isaac Hanson

You

Beginning

Success

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" My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age. "

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Never

Parents

" I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.' "

" I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog. "

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

" Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around. "

Isaac Hanson

Yourself

Down

" I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges. "

Isaac Hanson

People

Said

" What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band. "

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

" One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations. "

" We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others. "

Isaac Hanson

Things

Very

" Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity. "

" '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. "

" We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing. "

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

Isaac Hanson

Potential

Challenges

" I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake. "

" Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in a lot of music history... we're songwriters, we're singers, we're players first. We're not entertainers, we're not celebrities, and frankly, we don't really want to be. "

" The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way. "

" Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm a proud family man. "

" We've always been proud of what we've done. "

" 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. "

" I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.' "