"Quotes & Converstions!"
1997 & 1998 Quotes
"Who was the last person you argued with? "
ZAC: I don't keep track of those kind of things
TAY: Everyone argues at certain points, but I don't remember the last time... (Thinks for a while). The computer! We were yelling at the computer last night!
IKE: Yeah, we were yelling at it because it wouldn't save something. We were getting really mad at the thing.
ZAC (pretending to cry again): We were like 'You mean computer! We don't like you at all! It was arguing back as well!
TAY: Yeah, it was sending us messages like, 'Screw you!'. We were like, 'Oh my God! It's alive! (all laugh). The computers's cussing at me!
"What would you most like to change about the world?"
ZAC (pretending to cry): You know what I wanna do? I wanna give everyone in the world a puppy!
TAY: We're not up there to, like, saving the whales or anything, you know...
ZAC (continuing to tearfully interrupt the others): Because puppies are good! They make you feel good!
IKE: Except when they grow up to be big dogs. (Pretends to cry too.) Yeah they're all warm and squishy inside (?!). Especially when they pee on you.
"But what if you make tons of money? Are you going to blow it all on fast cars and extravagance?"
Taylor: A Porsche may be cool but what happens when your career's over and all you have to live in is your car?
Zac: Yeah, you'd be wishing you'd at least bought a bus!
Isaac: I think you have to try and be level-headed about it. If we did make loads of cash we'd probably build a studio to record in.
"Have you ever lied about your age?"
IKE: Why would we lie about our ages?
ZAC(smiling): I don't have that problem yet! It'd be pointless anyway. When we started doing gigs I was, like, this big! (He waves his hands around his knees and screeches 'Hi I'm fourteen!')
TAY(laughing): Even now, I can't say I'm nineteen.
ZAC(putting on a Noo Yawk accent): Hey yo! I'm 22!
IKE (with the same accent): Yo! Wassup!
TAY: You're 22 and you're from Brooklyn...
IKE(still doing the accent): Hey, forget about it! I'm Italian. We all live in a subway sandwich!
"Do you think you'll ever cut your hair?"
I: What a weird question!
T: (Sounding a bit miffed) It's just hair! That's all we have to say on the matter, it's just hair.
I: I'm actually going to have my hair cut a bit before we shoot our next video. It's getting a little too long.
T: It's getting VERY long, Isaac!
I: (ignoring him)But I've had very short hair before.
T: For a long time we had short, layered hair. Who knows, we could have it shaved off one day!
"Have you ever been mistaken for a girl?"
All three: Yes!
I: Numerous of times, especially Zac coz he's the youngest.
Z: I have a good friend, a girl who looks exactly like me and has my length blonde hair.
T: People come over to her with autograph books saying, "Hey Zac, can you sign this for me?"
I: She's from a family of three girls who are my age, Taylor's age and Zac's age. I suppose...
T: ...Yuk! They don't all look like us, do they? That would be too spooky!
I: No, they don't all look like us. If they did they'd be the ugliest girls ever!
"Describe your dream date scenario?"
( Taylor starts squealing with horror at the thought of talking about girls!)
I: If you were on a date with someone you really liked, it wouldn't matter where you were or what you did.
T: I think it'd matter if you were driving your date somewhere and your car broke down in a mud puddle in freezong weather - and there was a moose on the road.
I: I could find a harness and tie it around the moose!
"What's the most embarrassing moment you've had on stage?"
Z: I'm probably the most embarrasing thing on stage!
I: We once stopped a potential embarrassment when, 15 minutes before we went on stage, we realised we'd forgotten to bring the power lead for the keyboard. It would have taken an hour to drive back to our house, so ouur mum decided she would drive to a nearby music store instead. They ended up lending her a whole keyboard cos they didn't have a replacement lead!
"Zac Plays Baseball With His Head..."
ZAC: We play baseball... and instead of using a bat, I use my head.
IKE: We play different sports at different times, so we’ve never kept our skills up...
ZAC: And we never were very good at any of those sports in the first place!
"There's a Bizarre Rumor About Taylor..."
TAY: I heard I was supposed to have made Leanne Rimes pregnant.(He shakes his head in disbelief.) You’ve just gotta block out those sort of rumours.
IKE: There are also lots of rumours that we don't play our instruments. That's a pretty bogus thing to say, because of course we do. But if people don't like your music and want to make up stuff, so what?
"Isaas Has A Rash...
TAY(sympathetically): He's always been the kind of guy who gets like that. When we first went to South America, nine years ago, Ike had a best friend who he’d known since he was born. When we left, Ike broke out in a rash. Nobody could figure out what it was. But we think it was brought on by the fact he didn't want to leave his friend.
IKE: Yeah, and I just freaked out. I'm still a little bit like that.
Hanson Is Turning Into Pearl Jam...
TAY: As long as fans keep buying our records, we'll keep making them. Even if they hated our music, we couldn't stop...
IKE: But it might make us depressed!
ZAC: We'd be (pretends to cry) ‘I wanna play music.' Then we'd get a little bit depressed and we’d make records like (rasps in terrible heavy metal roar) "Heeeeeeyyyy! It's my musiiiiiiiiic! Eeeeeuuurrrrgh!"(Everybody laughs.)
IKE: Yeah, we'd make very alternative records like (they all sing) "You may wonder/Why I sound so angry/Look at all the pain/Spilling from my head..." (They continue for about a verse.) It's a Pearl Jam thing, y'know! (The song they're singing is Pearl Jams "Jeremy".)
Hanson Are Always Talking About Girls...
IKE (confidingly): We're very close. We talk to each other about everything - especially girls!
TAY: Have we met Cameron Diaz? Ooh, we've been very close. At award shows, we've run into Brooke Shields, Cindy Crawford... and we've met Jewel . We've also met...
ZAC(missing the point): The Prodigy...
TAY: Annette Campbell... You know, it's hard getting to know girls. But we're big fans of Cameron Diaz!
IKE: As Zac said in our video, who's not a fan of a beautiful woman? It's very true!
ZAC(summing up): If you're a guy.
Isaac Picks His Nose...
TAY(chuckling): There's a picture of Ike picking his nose like this (rams finger up nose and laughs like mad). But he said. "No. I was scratching my nose!"
IKE (protesting): I was! But in that video Dad made, I'm sitting watching TV and I am picking my nose. Hey, you know, everyone has bad habits! I'm not ashamed. I love my boogers!
EVERYONE: Uurgh!
Weirdos Impersonate Them...
IKE (grimly): There was a radio interview in Atlanta, Georgia, where some people pretended they were us...
TAY: Yeah, the station got three kids off the street and claimed they were us. It wasn't a joke - they were cursing and acting like complete jerks to the people who called in.
IKE: People pretend they're us on the Internet as well. Fans think we’re talking to them, but it's actually other people who are cursing at them.
They Invent Superheros...
ZAC(excitedly): We all draw cartoon things... like some insect guy!
IKE (explaining): Zac draws certain superheroes that he's made up.
ZAC: Some of them have got names, but I can't tell you what. I just call them stupid names so I can remember 'em.
IKE: Like in our garage, we’ve drawn murals with storylines all over the walls. We have a lot of stuff going through our heads...
Chinese Food!...
TAY:"I wonder what the food's like in Asia?"(He ponders out loud, with his mouth full of chocolate chip ice cream).
IKE:"It'll be a total culture shock when we go there next month. The food here is pretty similar to the US but like, in Asia I dunno..."
ZAC:"Yeah, like, we have Chinese food back home in Tulsa but in Asia it won't be like Americanized Chinese food it'll be, like, HARDCORE Chinese food!"
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