Zitat des Tages von Isaac Hanson:
The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.
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.
It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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.
I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.
We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.
Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.
Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
We have a good time and try not to kill each other.
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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.
I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.
One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
Our songs all carry the same way.
We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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.'
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.
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
We've always been proud of what we've done.
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.
There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.
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.
Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.
There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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.
The crowds in Milwaukee are awesome.
'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'