Quotes from Isaac Hanson

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

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

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.'

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

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.

No matter what, I will always hope for that day when I look around and can say, 'Oh yeah, I wrote a song that touched me emotionally the way that a song like 'She's Got A Way,' by Billy Joel did.'

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

Love is giving up your needs for the sake of someone else, in some other words its sacrifice

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

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.

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

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

I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

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.

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

We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.

The crowds in Milwaukee are awesome.

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

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

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.

We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

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

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

'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'