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

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" Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges. "

" 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. "

" I'm a proud family man. "

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

" Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial. "

Entrepreneurial

" It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors. "

" Word of mouth is way more important than millions of dollars spent marketing. "

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

" Hanson will be associated with 'MMMBop' and long blonde hair in the same way the Beatles are associated with mop tops and suits. "

" If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

" Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long. "

" I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record. "

" Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up. "

" The crowds in Milwaukee are awesome. "

" It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.' "

" I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would. "

" We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters. "

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

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

Plastic Surgery

" Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place. "

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

" For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same. "

" There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5. "

" Christmas albums are not something you do frequently. "