Age:
20
Birthday:
November 17, 1980
Musical Taste:
"We love old music." ---Isaac Hanson
Personality:
"Zac’s the wacky one. I kinda go back and forth. I can be really wacky and I can be really calm. It just depends on the mood. Taylor has always been one of the shyer ones." ---Isaac Hanson
Zac's Personality:
"He’s pretty wild. When a song is over, he’ll stand on some kind of stool and act like he’s gonna jump into the crowd or something." ---Isaac Hanson
Different Music Styles:
"Nobody stays exactly the same. You’ll definitely know it’s Hanson, but we’re constantly changing." ---Isaac Hanson
Comparison to the Beatles:
"Oh no! Don’t go there. You never want to say that!" ---Isaac Hanson
Hiring the Dust Brothers:
"We hired them before the Beck album came out [Beck’s Odelay was the major album of ‘96]. They liked our demo tapes." ---Isaac Hanson
Future:
"We’ll keep doing our music whether we sell one record or 1 million." ---Isaac Hanson
"There’s so much more to do as time goes on…We’re doing what we want to do and hopefully we can encourage kids to do the same thing." ---Isaac Hanson
Attracting Girls:
"It’s just a natural phenomenon when guys play music. I’m sure it happens to all the bands." ---Isaac Hanson
"None of us has a girlfriend. But being in a band, you meet people everywhere you go. I know mine will turn up one day." ---Isaac Hanson
Meaning of 'MMMBop':
"It’s deeper than most people give it credit for. It’s a frame of rime. ‘In an mmmbop they’re gone. ‘In an mmmbop, they’re not there.’ It’s about holding onto your friends and the people who matter. Because in the end, as we say in the song, they’ll be the only ones there." ---Isaac Hanson
Arthur Ashe Kids' Day:
"It’s great to be here…I think it’s a great opportunity to do something really cool, to open up this stadium and everything. It’s great! We’re really looking forward to doing this show, the whole day and everything… It’s cool. We love the opportunity to just play period. That’s what we do-music!" ---Isaac Hanson
Middle of Nowhere:
"'Weird'… We kind of brought up this idea of weird. Everybody uses the word weird all the rime…Everybody feels that way at certain points in time. It’s a reassuring thing. Don’t worry, we all feel a little bit weird sometimes." ---Isaac Hanson
"'MMMBop' is very up, but the lyrics are actually kind of contradictory. Even though being a kid is kind of a carefree sort of thing for the most part I guess, there are definitely a lot of things that stick in kids’ minds. 'Lucy' was very much a collaborative effort [with Mark Hudson]." ---Isaac Hanson
"I think the album turned out really well. You can never interpret how a record’s going to turn out, because there’s always some little twist to it that you never expected. When you’re in the studio, it’s not just, 'Oh man, we’re recording a song.' There’s a lot of creative stuff that goes on during that process. Part of what the album has is a lot of different feels. Songs like 'Look at You' and 'Speechless' are very groove-oriented, very much based around just one melody line. 'MMMBop' is very upbeat, very melodic. Songs like 'Man From Milwaukee,' that’s just kind of a crazy song." ---Isaac Hanson
"It ['Yearbook'] was one of those where you came across the idea and said, 'Wow, that’s cool. Stop. Hold it. We’ve got this one.'" ---Isaac Hanson
Fans:
"It’s cool to get fan mail and to see what the people think of what you’re doing." ---Isaac Hanson
"We definitely do get our share of young teen-age girls. It’s the audience that everybody goes for, because that’s the audience that buys records, comes to concerts, that enjoys music. We want to get those people to really enjoy it." ---Isaac Hanson
School Gigs:
"That was a really great experience." ---Isaac Hanson
Success:
"The opportunities that show themselves when you are successful are amazing. You can do lots of things for other people that you couldn’t do before. Money is only like icing on the cake. If you’re successful and you get to make a living off what you love to do, then why not go for it? If you make pottery and you can make money selling it to people, then why not do it? If we didn’t make a single cent off of what we’re doing...we would still perform, because that’s what we intend to do for the rest of our lives." ---Isaac Hanson
"It’s really amazing that, no matter what language they speak, people in so many countries enjoy our songs... When we performed in Indonesia, we stopped and let the audience sing, and they knew the lyrics word for word. That’s amazing! There were 16,000 people at one of our Canadian appearances, and they knew the noise reached 140 decibels. [About as loud as a jet engine at takeoff!] It was so loud that it was actually painful." ---Isaac Hanson
Concerts:
"There’s just a lot of fun when you’re up on stage, that kind of adds to the personality traits, I guess." ---Isaac Hanson
Arguing:
"If you’re focusing on the argument part of it too much, then it can get a little bit out of control. But you just have to learn to just deal with it, and just go on." ---Isaac Hanson
Looking Back Years From Now:
"I don’t think we’ll ever have any regrets as to what we’ve done. It’s only been good experiences and you can only learn from mistakes and the good things that you’ve done." ---Isaac Hanson
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