"I don't resist screaming girls - I jump in the middle of them!"

"Sometimes I just want someone to kiss me and hold me and tell me everything is going to be alright. But I haven't found that special person yet."

"Yeah, Zac was dropped on his head when he was a baby."

"If I wasn't in Hanson, I wouldn't be me."

"The biggest rumor was that Zac died!"

"Water is good."

"I actually know for a fact that me and Isaac have a totally different taste in girls."

"You go to a foreign country and hear 'blah,blah,blah, Hanson, blah,blah. It's weird!" "Hardly any girls are into things like violent movies - girls just want to talk, they want romance."

"Sometimes we'd do that. Run out of the hotel naked. Just to kind of refresh ourselves." (note that he's kidding!)

"Girls are very inspirational. It was meant to be that way."

"A year ago, nobody cared much about us so you have to wonder, why do people care now?"

"I'd like to call a friend's hotline, I need a friend NOW!"

"If we lose our voices tommorrow, we'll worry about it tommorrow."

"It may not be fun at the time, but if cameras follow you around everywhere, the minute that ends, you'll wish it was there."

"I think there is a chemistry bewteen two people, and no one can explain it. The two may have nothing in common, but they just like each other. It's mother nature taking its course."

"I often go into my own little world."

"We wrote a lullaby for our little brother. It woke him up."

"When I'm composing a new song, I just sit down at the piano and start tinkling away. Eventually, a tune comes along which I can do something with. Isaac is different. When he sits down at the piano, the tune is already half-finished in his head. But I don't even know whether the song I'm going to compose is in slow or quick time."

"The girls aren't screaming at you. They're screaming at the fact that you're in a band and they hear you on the radio. It's not like you're special."

"I think we're pretty normal. We're like most guys our age. We like football and girls--I mean what guy doesn't like girls?"

"We have more caffeine than most adults."

"Your bumper-riding skills were a little too much right there..."

"I don't know what spare time is."

"If we got a monkey, I'd be too busy playing with it to write a song about it!"

"We fight over things like who has the TV remote control, and it's usually Zac. No one messes with him, or he'll go crazy."

"I tap on tables all the time, I can't stop. I like to drum all the time. My brothers keep saying 'Tay, shut up', But I can't."

"As we're getting older, we've been having problems with these gray hairs back here."

"There's something I forgot to tell you last night..."

"I can think of clever jokes, but I'm not really goofy or anything."

"No one can unplug me! Ha ha ha!"

"Once I wound Zac up so much that he dragged me around the lounge by my hair."

"Everything evolves and changes!"

"It sounds like a bowel movement."

"We're gonna get really drunk... on Dr. Pepper."

"If music is what you do, and you love it, why would you be sad?"

"Look at my brother Zac. He's just eleven years old. What's the point of him having a girl? What's he gonna do with her?"

"You have to wash it eventually...and it'll like go, 'Booof'...it'll end up in a little 'fro-braid...like a braid-'fro...braid slash 'fro.." (talking about Zac's hair in braids)

"Right now I'm reading 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand."

"People ask us if there's girls we write about and there's actually not. We just dream about them!"

"Yeah, there is this nasty rumour that I cuss all the time, but really I don't, because that is a rule in our house and I wouldn't want to disobey my parents."

"Oh god, memories!"

"There was like a constant meeting. It was like: OH MY GOD!" (on his voice breaking)

"Girls are lucky they don't have to go through that!" (on his voice changing)

"We really miss playing. We were used to doing performanced two or three times a week. Then all of a sudden you get signed , and it's more about [promotion] than playing."

"People are really wild. They write these fantasies about how they met us, how they did this with us, or that with us -- these complete elaborations -- like it really happened!" (on fan fiction)

"Don't touch the towel!" (at the Chicago concert when a girl tried to grab his sweat towel off the stage)

"I haven't got any clear picture of my dream girl. I don't mind a bit what she looks like, but she must be very cool and like listening to me. She has to be faithful too, and that's important. But I don't want to rush things. After all, I'm only 15."

"Make sure you're doing something you really want to do and then put your whole heart into it."

"It so humiliating!"

"I wouldn't say we're bad boys. We're just up for having a laugh."

"There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State building in New York you'd kill someone. I feel really bad 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once."

"We still share a small bedroom, we're not spoiled, and we don't have loads of money."

"We don't actually have any fans; we hired all these people!"

"The girls are just a bonus."

"How do you know I'm not girl-crazy?"

"I'm not a girl and I'm not going to pull down my pants to prove it!"

"If a bully is beating up on a really cute girl, I'm a fighter!"

"Really, nobody has ever given us any advice."

"We're always looking, but we're not looking for girlfriends."

"Ya know?"

"It would take a lot more than a line. I think that's true of anybody really. When guys walk up to girls and say these cheesy lines, I think it leaves them worse off than before, they're buried alive!" (when asked what the best line someone could use to attract him would be)

"I used to run around naked with cowboy pistols. I was very young, I was about three, but then I put the pistols in the oven and burnt them. I had this thing about fire, I don't know. That's just a funny thing that happened when I was really young."

"Our grandma used to give our cousins jars of olives, because, you know, they really loved olives. Then one year, I guess she got confused and gave them something else and we ended up with the olives. We were just like "oh, thank you, a lot." We just had to kinda go with it. Yeah, but then afterwards we switched presents. It was like, 'here, you take the olives.' "

"Italy is really cool, for the girls and for the food."

"I can think of clever jokes, but I'm not really goofy or anything."

"We're known as Ike, Tay, and Zac, not Posh, Butter, Spicy, and Rare or whatever they are."

"I don't have a girlfriend yet, but if you live life, you meet girls. That's pretty basic."

"In a way, it's much more dangerous for a 30-year-old guy to say 'I like Hanson' than to say 'I like Limp Bizkit'", Taylor says. "More people are afraid to say they like Hanson. Therefore, we must be hipper." - "Hanson Works To Bridge Gap From Teeny-Bop To Adulthood", by Steve Penhollow for journalgazette.net, October 8, 2000

"don't touch the towel!"

"we invole seizures. it's just what happens. it's just the way our fans are."

"you have beliefs, right? if it's your faith, it guides what you believe, and that's going to influence your perspective on life."

"I like to just slide it in. I think it feels better that way." (I know what you're thinking, and I know it sounds bad, but I'm guessing that he's talking about how their voices can harmonize well...)

"I thought you weren't meant to be into girls until you were fourteen, but it seems like everyone's getting girlfriends younger."

"If the people we love are stolen away from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them, buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever."

"Sometimes the day is just way too long and you end up just crying with frustration at eachother."

"Its like one of those little speed demons -a turtle with boosters."

"Actually, when I get my permit, I fear for the people on the sidewalk."

"I got my driver's license, and I have to say a lot of times I'll drive Ike's car, and he'll be like, 'Uhhhh.' I'm practicing parallel parking with him. But I guess I really can't say whether I'm a good driver or not. Driving is definitely fun, as it always is when you first start out. I enjoy it and it's very cool to have that freedom when you turn 16."

"I think it's simply great how you can give free-reign to your imagination when you draw. You can turn your dreams into shapes and colors, and that's what I find interesting about drawing."

"Imagine what jaws would've been like without the 'da-da-da-da-da-da and he BITES THE GUY'S LEG OFF!"

"Getting you license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car."

"I love speed. I get sort of a kick out of it."

"The coolest things about fans is that they're devoted...but pyscho."

"We actually did it in a one car garage, but we did it in a garage and there's three of us, so we thought, what a combination." (talking about the making of 3CG CD)

"My names Jordan, but Taylor makes my eyes bluer."

"Zac I think its your vibrating underwear."

"To get to do our own and really do what we want to do with the video has been cool."

"We've never been in a tornado, actually."

"We've thought about getting tattoos..."

"A lot of teen bands are criticized for being fake, but they're not hated. I think that we are hated, because it scares people that we could be real."

"Success can't go to your head. You have to have fun with it, but you can't let it make you any different."

"A lot of people don't understand Zac's jokes for some odd reason."

"So much of this industry is luck -- that moment that you write that song that comes together at a time to work with the right producer, to connect with the right guy to hand the money to the right person at the radio station to play it," he said.
"A lot of it's luck, and the rest of it is hard work and devotion to doing something you love. All we need is the luck."

"I tap on tables all the time, I can't stop. I like to drum all the time. My brothers keep saying 'Tay, shut up', But I can't."

"I'm just not looking my best today."

"I wouldn't say we opened the door of pop music again. I'd say music opened and we were allowed to get it."

"If you gotta go to the bathroom you're like . . . I gotta hold it . . . Oh God!" Taylor (MTV Live)

"I hate it when girls come up to you and say 'Oh you're so cute' just because you're in a band."

"Happiness is like peeing your pants. everyone sees it, but only you feel the sensation!"

"We'll call our friends and they'll be like, 'you'll never guess what you're supposed to have done this week.'"

"Sometimes you wish you could just go home and sit there."

"There's nothing like calories man. calories, calories, and more calories."

"I just hope the first time I kiss a girl, she's not as hairy as our dog."

"Look around you guys and make sure your not stepping on anybody!"

"I might be a wild rock 'n' roller, but you won't catch me peeing in public!"

"Go to bed!"

"I think life is more nerve-wracking than performing in front of people."

"Zac, you're pretty fly for a white guy."

"I wanna be a space man!"

"I wouldn't say we opened the door of pop music again. I'd say music opened and we were allowed to get in."

"We're nothing to cry over!"

"It's cool to go on the internet and see all the different views on us."

"I am a proud owner of a hairless monster."

"We don't sing on the album, Rob Zombie does all the vocals."

"i think it's just that guys can't scream. they scream when they're about eleven and after that all of a sudden it ends."

"i think it's simply great how you can give free-reign to your imagination when you draw. you can turn your dreams into shapes and colors, and thats what i find interesting about drawing."

"God you guys are loud..you can stop screaming now!"

"Yeah, there is this nasty rumor that I cuss all the time, but really I don't, because that is a rule in our house and I wouldn't want to disobey my parents."

"That's a lot of jelly beans!"

"Fame is not really about you. It's not about who you are."

"Aaah, how 'bout you take a picture of your butt, buddy?"

"Guys. . . if he tries that on I'm comitting in-family homicide!"

"Hey to all of you on the lawn. I bet you've been waiting all day there. You hot? How are you doing? It's about to get hotter!"

"I don't have anything against them. I mean, they are talented, but ya know... they aren't my favorite group." (talking about Nsync.)

"Sometimes fans will follow the tour bus for so long and when we stop to eat or something, they can't even come over and talk to us. all that for nothing."

"Aw, that was sweet, give me a hug!"

"Don't spoons make you smile? Personally, my friend the fork is a riot, and the butterknife makes me cry."

"The other day this girl asked me tosign her back, and I was like, 'Woah!' But I did it although I felt really icky!"

"My God! It does really say pobMMM...thats amazing!" (when Ike said "Did you know if you play Mmmbop backwards, its pobMMM?")

"I think it's simply great how you can give free-reign to your imagination when you draw. You can turn your dreams into shapes and colors, and that's what I find interesting about drawing."

"I fear for anyone who's on the street when I am driving."

"Oh my god...Jennifer Aniston send us a poster of herself!"

"Are you guys looking forward to KC and the Sunshine Band?!" (crowd screams NO!) "That wasn't exactly the response that I was looking for!" - Tay (at the 11th annual Y-100 Wingding in 1997)

"Whoa, two Liz's that's cool. Liz squared. Double Liz." - Taylor (backstage at Philly #2 concert talking to a girl and her friend)

"She (Avery) likes to play with her barbies so I'll go get Zac's Power Rangers and make the Barbies get married to them. Then she'll tell me to stop playing with her because I got her upset."

"If Avery joined the band, she'd take over."

"Sometimes it's complicated and I'm not really hitting the right notes, but that's what makes it live.. I just try to be as tired as the rest of the audience is from jumping around."

"Yeah, we were thrown out of a toy store recently. They had a display of really bouncy balls and we were allowed to try them out. We ended up bouncing them all over the shop and off the ceiling. All the store assistants kept telling us to calm down. In the end we were asked to leave. What did they expect us to do? Not throw the balls after they had asked us to?"

"If you could change the world, what would be the one thing you'd do? Would you save the whales or the endangered purple snake?"

"Um, let's see there's the tall one, then there's the other tall one and then there's the blonde one. Is that good enough?" - Taylor on the names of the BSB

"I guess we weren't prepared for any of it as far as people responding to us, all the letters we've gotten. Now we have three or four storage rooms, like garages, full to the brim of letters we've gotten from all over the world."

"We always say the definition of the wrst experience ever is being on a TV show where you have to lip-synch. Thats the one thing we've tried to enforce. What's the point of being a band if your not even doing it?" "I think its cool to see different sites because then you get to see everbody else's perspective on you, and different ideas about songs and stuff like that."

"So I see some of you wanna marry us, huh?" - Tay (at the West Palm Beach Albertane Concert)

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."

"We're just here to play music and have fun doing it, so criticize us all you want."

"Honestly, we'd be just as happy traveling around in a van doing local gigs and clubs, its just amazing that we are lucky enough to be able to have fans and play for massive amounts of people, traveling around the world, psh..who would've known?"

"That's another midwest thing. Everybody drinks Dr. Pepper."

"You're the same person you were five minutes ago, when nobody cared."

"Oh c'mon! Tell me. It can't be that bad! I mean, in Seattle some girl was screaming, 'Taylor! Sex! Taylor!'"

"You shake somebody's hand, then you pick your nose, wipe it on your leg. Then you pick your ear...it's tough!"

"I think life is more nerve-racking than performing infront of people."

"I might be a wild rock'n'roller but you wouldn't catch me peeing in public!"

"I heard I was supposed to have made Leanne Rimes pregnant. You've just gotta block out those sort of rumors."

"I think it's always cool to go see different (web) sites cause' then you see everybody elses perspectives on you and and on different ideas about our songs and stuff like that."

"We were thinking, if you played 'MMMBop' backwards it would say, 'Zac is dead!' " (I think he's referring to how if you play a recording of someone talking, backwards, it has little subconscious phrases in it)

"It's like urination in a can, then someone has to drink it!" (talking about beer)

"She's really nice. When she talked to me she kept on smiling. I love her smile." -Taylor talking about Sarah Michelle Gellar.

"I've often thought about how nice it would be to be in love, but I don't believe you can imagine what it would be like if you haven't experienced it. Still I think about it a lot, of course, and try to imagine what it would be like. But no girl has made my heart beat really fast yet. I haven't even kissed a girl yet. Actually, I find the whole thing a bit embarassing though it's me who gets the most love letters. I read each letter very carefully."

"Sleeping is the key."

"God made a little angel and sent her down to earth to give us love and laughter from the moment of her birth. Then when god saw his great work he left her in this world to spread his precious spirit with this special little girl...Zoe Genevieve Hanson."

"There's someone out there listening to this like 'wow that sucks', but someone else is like, 'wow this is good!'"

"I'd say I loved you too, if you loved me for me."

"We're still the dorks from Oklahoma."

"I'm a very shy person, especially where girls are concerned."

"When I'm on stage, I forget everything around me and concentrate only on the music. You can't really describe the feeling."

"Yep, I have yet to meet the girl that makes my heart skip a beat."

"What did you expect us to do? Wait 20 years and then start making music?"

"Music and being Hanson--that's the core of it. You do it because it's more than just a job, it's a part of your life too. Music making is a part of you. I mean, if we stopped right now and went back to Tulsa and lived on the farm, we'd still be writing songs."

"Oh my God! It's alive! The computor is cussing at me!"

"Our friends have already said to us, 'If you start going weird, we're going to sort you out'"

"We're not doing this cause we want girls to scream at us, but they can if they want!"

"I really can't wear pants that tight. I actually want to have children later in life."

"No matter what, even if everything crashes and burns, at least we enjoyed ourselves and had a passion for our work."

"Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun."

"You have to be yourself before you can be anything."

"I have to watch what I say cause I have a potty mouth."

"You're right... I'm not really that shy!"

"Ike is the kind of guy who thought he was going to get married in the third grade."

"A truly great person doesn't need an introduction."

"I whacked it off. I cut it off myself. I think it's in a baggie somewhere. It's really scary looking. I kind of wanted to get rid of it. It's really frightening. It was just one of those things, time to cut it off!" (Don't panic...he's talking about his ratttail!! Wipe that thought out of your dirty mind...)

"In the beginning, we were young and blond and we seemed like a cheesy pop band. But we've always been a pop-rock band. Now that we've grown up a little bit, hopefully it will be easier for people to accept us and get into our music."

"There's a whole world of hot chicks out there."

"Actually, when I get my permit, I worry for people on the sidewalk."

"I think someone bit me last week. I'm not too sure. I know it felt like teeth and it hurt like crazy! Of course, it could have been just Zac."

"Sometimes the day is just way too long and you end up just crying with frustration at eachother."

"I haven't even kissed a girl yet. Actually I find the whole thing a bit embarassing, though it's me who gets the most love letters. I read each letter very carefully."

"I think there is a chemistry bewteen two people, and no one can explain it. The two may have nothing in common, but they just like each other. It's mother nature taking its course."

"Sometimes it's complicated and I'm not really hitting the right notes, but that's what makes it live. I just try not to be as tired as the rest of the audience is from jumping around."

"We actually just stayed in the studio, turned the lights off and locked the doors and got food delivered via the mail slots in tubes."

"My neighbor was being picked on by this guy once and I felt bad so I stepped in and I hit this guy. It was a pretty basic punch and it hurt my hand more than it hurt him. I feel silly saying this cause it makes me sound like I'm a big man and I'm not."

"A lot of those books, the unofficial ones, are fairly funny, because they make up things you didn't know about yourself. Your like, "Huh, I didn't know that. And that. And that."

"It's not like you meet somebody and go 'wow, she's hot' and you ask her out. I want to make friends with her first. You want to make sure it's actually about them liking you as opposed to them thinking, 'Wow, I'm gonna date a guy from Hanson'. I don't want dating to be something superficial."

"It's the message. Not the messenger."