Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.

Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

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

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.

Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.

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

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.

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.'

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.

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.

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

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

We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

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

The most creative person is not the person who can come up with the best idea; it's the one who can take that group of things on the table and assemble them in the greatest multiple of unique ways.

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.

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

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

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.

Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.

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.

Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

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.

The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.

I'm a proud family man.

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

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.'

When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.

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

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.

I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.

Texas is a pretty free state.

Our songs all carry the same way.

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

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

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

'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.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

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

People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

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

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

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

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.

We have a good time and try not to kill each other.