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" 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. "

Isaac Hanson

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension. "

" Christmas albums are not something you do frequently. "

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

" Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity. "

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Isaac Hanson

Soul

Soul Music

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

" There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums. "

" When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments. "

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

" As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Texas is a pretty free state. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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" 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. "

" People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music. "