"I like to bang on things."
"I'm goofy stupid."
"The dust brothers, they have a very clean house."
"Ok man. We love you people!" (From the Jenny McCarthy Show)
"How can we break up, we're brothers!" (VH1 Interview)
"They're trying to make them look taller but it's just not working." (Talking about platforms- from MTV's House of Style)
"Somebody's bigger sister said, 'Will you go out with my little sister?' I was like I don't go out with people yet.' I said, 'It's not like I'm going to get married in the next five or six years!' She said you could." (VH1 interview)
"It's Letterman! It's like, whoa, why would Letterman want us? But if he wants us, I'll go."
"Everyday Life." (When asked what inspires them to write)
"It's tedious, but it's fun!" (About what it was like to record the album)
"...and someone got our name wrong and called us Handsome!"
"Tay is a piano player, he is 14 and he's more perfectionist as far as vocals go." (BBC1 Interview)
"We love the UK!" (BBC1 Interview)
"Our parents forced us into this! Help us!"
"Make them scream again." (At Paramus Park Mall)
"I'm not a great drummer, but everyone says I can play, so I'll take their word for it. The secret is nobody else's arms are as long. I couldn't play guitar or piano, so I went to drums because I've got long arms."
"I think it's probably actually that I'm so shy I just act wacky to make up."
"You can't avoid getting girls if you're a guy (from a band)."
"...And holding on to the ones who really care which might be your brothers and sisters if you have them." (Talking about the meaning of MmmBop)
"The Scream Squad!!!" (When asked what to call their many fans)
"Of course we weren't very good." (Talking about when they first were a band)
"Yes, but we write all different ways. One of us will come in, or we'll all write the whole song." (When asked if the three write music together)
"You're talking about us but you don't know who we are!" (In reply to Kathy Griffen questioning his name on Fox After Breakfast)
"It's a little bit hard...I have a lot of favorite foods, but now I'd just like a big pile of jello." (About his favorite food)
"I'm too big!!!" says Zac. "He means that he is too strong for the boys at his age. He likes to jump around and feels that he is the oldest one, hahahaha," his brothers explain.
"My brothers are my best friends...only bester"
"I don't tend to get the girl fans,"(he sighs, bottom lip sticking out)"I just get all the young guys and weirdos."
"Ike would be the romantic one who would dedicate songs to people."
"No, No, No, No, it's Ike that does Beevis and Butthead."
"We'd like to thank the bird droppings....."
"Now for my favorite catagory Best Female Artist
"Thank you man"
"I'm the wacky one. Wacky. Wacky."
"Rock with us cause we rock n roll, n rock and rollin....."
"You don't know how long it took me to perfect that!"
"Like a one eyed goose!!!!"
"Let's do it babe!!!"
"I don't think you can until you lose all your hair!" (When asked if he will ever get used to all the screaming)
"I'm still looking for a girlfriend. I just don't think I've found the right one yet. Maybe someday..." (About a girlfriend)
"I'd probably go out and buy a Virtual Boy. It's a video game, they're kinda cool, but they didn't do very well in the U.S.A. so they're on sale." (About what he what do ih he could have $20 to spend)
I've had this job since I was siz."
"I would be a cartoonist." (about what he would do if he wasn't in Hanson)
"Ike and Tay are my best friends only bester."
Zac and Cindy on House of Style. Zac-"Cindy, if you be any kind of candy, what would you be?" Cindy- "Hot tamalies..whoppers...I love whoppers!" Ike responding to Cindy's first reply- "I would agree with that one."
"You're talking to us but you don't know who we are!"--Taylor, in reply to Kathy Griffen questioning his name on Fox After Breakfast.
"If I say I'm the wacky one, I always have to be wacky. When I get serious, it's like, 'Why aren't you wacky? Is this a bad day for you?'"
It's cool to talk to fans, and see why they like the music. But, I don't really know why hey scream and try to grab you."
"Don't play these tapes or they'll blow up!"
"You have big eyebrows!"
"MORE PEANUT BUTTER, we need more Peanut Butter! GIMME the Peanut Butter!"
"I made a gumball that looks like your face!"
"What is IN this thing?"
"You LOVE me, You really LOVE ME!!!!!"
"Now there's someone who was rejected as a child." (about Keith Prodigy)
I wanna be a worker at Burger King."
"We're the long haired guys that look like girls."
"They need to invent portable washing machines...I miss clean clothes."
"When you watch a movie, if it didn't have music, it would probably be a bad movie!"
"We're going to bungee jump off of the Empire State Building!"
"And the other thing is it's a misconception that, ya know, your voice changes and then it stops, but your voice is changing until your 21!"
"But see the worst part is when you have this great song and you forget it!'
"I have extra toes!"
"She's actually become the Sumo Baby Wrestler of the World!" (Talking about Zoe)
"Yeah, I'm into Chris Farley..hey, if you're watching, I wanna meetcha!"
"It's kind of a question for you to answer...What is the middle of nowhere? What do you want to know? Maybe it's the middle of a desert...maybe it's Mars..maybe it's Albertane..I do not know because I am weird!"
"We are available, but we don't date. Sorry!"
"Are we related? Yes, we are...we're the ultimate brothers!"
"We don't go to school and we're really dumb. 2+2 is..." Then Taylor says "27!"
"We have these special needles and if we get big heads, we just like, pop 'em!"
"Female, that's good. Normal, not alien. Human, no neosapiens. No Harry Conicks!" (Talking about what he looks for in a girl)
"Then there are those extra bolts we put in the other day." (About how they stay down to earth)
"We're [Ike and I] both goofy, and it's stupid and it's funny sometimes. Oh God! I sound like a jerk don't I?"
"Like your armpit! (When asked what success smells like)
"Mmm yeah...if our name was Fotherington-Smythe, I think we would name the band that."
"Erm, clothes! (When asked what his favorite type of clothing was)
"I don't know. The president is the president, but Cindy Crawford is very cool and is awesome to meet. But he's the president. He's like the second most powerful man in the world." The first being..? "Um, I have no idea...wait, me!" (When asked how was more exciting to meet the President or Cindy Crawford)
"I imagine that being in love with a girl is something very special. I haven't experienced the famous butterflies-in-the-stomach yet, but I think I still got enough time for that."
"People are people, age is irrelevant. Some of my best friends are way older than me and we have agood time together."
"The time I was playing the drums and I had my eyes closed. I was getting really into it when the stool slipped and I ended up lying on my back with my feet up in the air."
"We just wipe our noses and run it through our hair! (When asked how they take care of their hair)
"I don't think I could bare to do that. I already smash my drums enough as it is, hitting them as hard as I do. (When asked if they were into smashing up their instruments on stage)
"On one of the first shows for the Middle of Nowhere tour both Tay and I got sick. It's very easy to get sick when you're meeting so many people."
"We once had six cats but that was because the mother gave birth to a litter of five."
"Being the next big thing, that's just a good line, I guess you would say. We don't necessarily think we're the big shots."
"The whole Hanson family went shopping. We all went to the big Doc Marten shoe store in London and we all bought some boots. So every time you come into our hotel room, all you can see is different-colored boots everywhere!"
"It is dear to us--like Rudolph!" (Talking about what they're music means to them)
"Hello, and you are on Loveline."
"Listen for the rumbling, and then RUN!!!" (talking about fans when they are coming to meet them)
"Welcome to LoveLine!!!!!"
"No, we never went to school, period. W're like, 1 + 4 is 2." (CD MMTalk)
"Life is like a Twinkie and girls are the cream filling inside."
"I just love a good spanking!"
"If you run, they'll chase you. If you don't run, you're dead." (talking about the fans)
"It's really cool seeing ourselves on MTV. It's awesome to look and go 'That's me!' It's a great feeling."
We're still going trick-or-treating this year! It's not like someone's gonna see us! We'll be all dressed up with masks on. Then you go around getting tons of candy! It used to be like 'Give me a treat or I'll set your house on fire!'
"How could you not like a crazy 3 year old?" (About Mackie)
"Put the camera down...Put your hands in the air and lean against the car!" (Talking through his megaphone to the photographers)
. "Sometimes I plug my Nintendo into the hotel room before I've unpacked anything else. It's like I can't live without beating Taylor at NBA Jam."
"I think we can always do better. Being a band means, to me anyway, being a work of art. Even Picasso wasn't perfect."
"The other day I had to beat the crap out of Ike, because, you know, he wouldn't give me any money."
"Tay is left handed and dyslexic, Ike drives a red camaro-He WISHES!" (About the rumours going around)
"I go to the mental hospital every couple of weeks and they do a check up."
"When I meet the girl of my dreams, I'll be wearing knee pads so it won't hurt when I bend down to propose."
"Music is always changing and you have to change with it..or else you're...stupid."
"Hey caller people, how do you find out where we are?"
"It's cool because you get to learn about stuff in every place. That is part of our homeschooling. We go to different places, and find out about different libraries. Like earlier today, we saw the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston. That was cool."
"There's lots of different kinds of love."
"I only have two drum sets. I have a wine one and a green one."
"Ike has more zits, Tay has less zits, and I...I have no zits."
Pink by Aerosmith is really good. Also, there's this song called, "I Will Come To You" by this group called Hanson. We like that one a lot." (When asked what their fave song was.)
Make your life like toilet paper, long and useful!"
"The Spice Girls would've been dead. There may be four of them and only three of us, but we don't wear high heels." (About who'd win on the Celebrity DeathMatch.)
"The most exicting thing that's happened [to me] today was breakfast:French Toast!"
"When I saw the video [MmmBop] on MTV, I didn't recognize myself. I really thought I was some girl!"
"I'd cry if I was with a cute girl and I wanted to make her think I was sensitive."
"Whenever we see cows we sing, 'Cows! Cows! Everywhere! Cows are all around me!' It's a private joke!"
"You know, I was actually thinking of being a mute in the video." (Ideas for the 'Weird' video. MTV interveiwer's response: "That WOULD be a challenge for you!")
"We went to see Titanic in a cinema in New York. Did I cry? No way! I don't cry at films like that!"
"I can get angry! I don't think I could do a punk song though. It's not my style. But I still know how to sound angry!"
"I killed the guy with the metal detector! No, just kidding!" (How he got his machete and bootknife through secruity in the air port.)
"Oh, we don't dance in the show, we play instruments. That's a misconception. We can't dance for squat!" (About what they're planning on doing for their shows when they're on tour.)
"I mean, if they're not going to be cool, then we have a problem. Then we go and beat them with bats until they say, 'Okay, uncle, uncle!'" ( What would happen if the record company didn't give them time to themselves.)
"When you start feeling really tired and you look like a raccoon, you know you need a week's break."
I learned that two plus two equals seven."
"I'm doing the part of Schoeder and how he's saying 'Lucy, get off me!' and he regrets it and in the end he really liked her."
"The best thing was going to this chocolate factory in Germany. There were chocolate fountains that you dip wafers in and eat them. I reckon I should get one for back home!"
"Yeah, most of the time we're just beating on each other. If you notice, my suitcase is really hard--it's a special suitcase for beating people. It's got steel casing, and whenever I get mad, I go 'Hey, Ike! Bam!' "
"Check out Bobby's mile-high pile of presents on Bobby's World."
Who do we look up to? Well, we usually look up to people that are tall, about six foot two and up."
"See through trousers?! Are you mad? Are you kidding?" ( When asked if he'd wear see through trousers)
"We ate dogs for Thanksgiving"
"I made a gumball that looks like your face....."
"Save a tree, eat a beaver!"
"Girls are just icing on the cake, or music is like a hot dog and girls are the condiments. Life is a twinkie and girls are the sticky white stuff inside."
"It's cool to talk to fans, and see why they like the music, but I don't really know why they scream and try to grab you."
"One guy asked me if I'd been abducted [by aliens]. Yeah, right!"
"Now you're gonna die!"
Well see...first...you buy a ticket...and then... you get a seat."
"Hey, if we moved to Alaska it would be light all day for half the year and we'd never have to go to bed!"
"The Prodigy? Yuck!"
"Your just jealous because some girl was flirting with me, after a concert, because I'm so fine!"
[His reply when asked if he picks his nose.] "Yeah, who doesn't? I bet the President of the USA does too."
"A girlfriend? No thanks, I'd rather play nintendo and build my lego set!"
Lady: "Do you ever get scared of the crowds?" Zac: "No the only way we'd be scared is if we fell in!"
"I love you man"
"I'm not a ham I'm a chicken"
"Y-E-P( in a burp!)"
"The scream squad!!!"
"They're trying to make us look taller but it's just not working."
"Peace, Love, and Bullet-Proof Marshmallows!!"
"We're regular kids!"
"Usually when Tay has his moments, it's late at night and everyone is tired."
"We've always been close."
"I want to stay in Oklahoma because it's kind of a cool place to go back to."
"Can we crowd surf?"
"Thanks for being there for us! We love you fans!"
"I'll tour with Hanson!" (when asked.. "If you could tour with anyone, who would it be?")
"Why are you asking me that?" (when asked his favorite color)
"It's in the blood!" (explaining why he likes everyone Tay and Ike do)
"I wanna work with Zac Hanson. He's a great director!"
"I think it would be cool to go out with a mature 13 year old, plus it might make Tay jealous!"
"We're gonna die!" (On TT&MON)
"I can burp and say stuff at the same time"
"I draw cartoons all the time. When I get upset, I scribble too fast"
"We're really close-I even share clothes with Tay."
"Our favorite place? It's Australia! The beaches just blew us away and there was so much to do..."
(pretending to cry) "You know what I want to do? I wanna give everyone in the world a puppy"
"The 'alternative' thing is fading. People don't hate their parents as much anymore."
"Your odd, your married" (talking to Jay Leno)
"I think that Jeb Brien was a great directer, but he could bring his daughters here more often."
"We don't go around...MMMBOP!!!! Where's the love???"
"You wanna see something, do ya?"
"I have a machete and bootknife."
"I like your braids." (said to a 9-year-old girl at a concert)
"When you start looking like a raccoon, you go, you know, we need a break."
"We love you this much! (kisses the camera)"
"PLEASE STOP SCREAMING"
"The 007 Nintendo 64 is cool, but it's hard."
"Stop watching it's over!"
"Girls, I love girls, they're so cute, and they write me letters telling me they love me!"
"So you think we're chicks? What are you saying here? What are you saying?"
"My immune system is very good."
"What's the point of getting a girlfriend when you're only 12? It's not like you're going to make out!"
"I have an invisible girlfriend-she's sitting in the audience but you can't see her."
"There's a difference between meeting me, reading about me and knowing me."
"I'd bring myself! I think I'm pretty good company. You know me and me make a good match. We're a lot alike. We're good friends, me and me!" (when asked who he'd bring to a party)
"Sometimes Ike just scares us all!!" (on discussing their different personalities)
"You know, it's snowing outside. That could be a sign that it's kinda cold..." (talking about Sweden)
"Lots and lots of trees....togeather equals BIG TREES!"
"Let me speak!"
"I look like Ozzy Ousbourne...I dunno!"
"You're a weirdo." (to a reporter who was prying into private family matters.
"When I take my hair outta the braids...it goes....POOF!"
"Here's that Meredith Brooks song...BEEEEEEEEP!"
"When I met Puff Daddy, I was like...'Yo!' and he's like 'Yo Zac!'"
"I could be called McZACdaddy! Ooooo Bad joke..."
"Ike is a girl charmer it's just something he does.."
"My voice changing causes problems?? Hmm...only to a certain extent. Some of the songs are really high..it's like 'Tay you try it now!'"
"How did I know my voice was changing? Well, I woke up one morning, and I sounded like Taylor, so I screamed as loud as I could...then I woke up for real."
"If I had a girlfriend, I doubt I'd tell anyone or else I'd get a LOT of 'unwanted attention' if you catch my drift."
"Some people just don't care for Hanson and others are more like "AHHHH MARRY ME!!"
"Marilyn Manson...Ooo the guy creeps me out man!"
"Alright I'm taking this to the Jerry Springer show."
"I am Zac. I come in peace."
"I enjoy my hair as it is."
"I am truly not a painter.. but I try anyway!"
"I think everybody's tired of being sad."
"I'm the drummer, I'll do whatever I want."
"I mean who isn't excited about the new Star Wars movie?"
"I want to be wearing knee pads when I meet the girl of my dreams, so when drop to my knees to propose, I don't hurt myself.
"This has been the best year of my life! Then again I'm only 11!"
"Ike and Tay usually aren't worried about it. I'm the one who usually backs out. I may think to go on a ride, and then when I'm on top about to do it, I change my mind and shout,"Oh my God, what am I doing?"
"If we were dating we'd talk about it. We'd tell people"
"But we aren't romantic with girls, like kissing them and stuff! Eeyuck" (1997)
"I'm Dr. Evil, wu ha ha ha ha (imatating his voice)"
"I have a problem with kicking over water!"
"I wanna be a spaceman!"
"Since he wasn't giving me any money , I had to beat the crap out of him!"
"As far as I'm concerned, I'm 18 and Isaac is 2."
"It's not like you can say 'Hey mom, they overdid it, it's different, it-you know thay were exagerating what I did.' They were there."(talking about getting in trouble when your homeschooled)
"So are you saying we're chicks?" (to Cindy Crawford)
"For Ike, I wish he could grow one inch so he could be six feet tall rather then 5'11". And Tay could actually get some fat on his bones." (when asked if he could wish one thing for his brothers what would it be)
"The occasional expresso keeps us going." *Zac* (when asked what keeps them going after long hours of hard work)
"Where's the love? I do not know. I'm not quite sure."
"I look stupid, donīt I?"
"The truth is, (we're) always crossing (our) fingers, the same as everyone else"
"If it tastes good, I'll eat it!"
"I like fingers"
"We've always said that hair is hair, and it really dosen't matter to us!"
"When I turn 16. I can flip hamburgers for five bucks an hour, or I can perform for thousands of people and make lots of money. What am I missing?"
"Blood? Nice!"
"Zac Man is here!"
"Yeah, I used your dentist, but it didn't work out too well."
"I've become massive and huge!" (in a funny voice)
"Yeah..awesome..dude, or how about this..TUBURALISTICAL!" (when asked to give three words to describe love)
"Oh yeah, women love me!"
"There'a a crocodile hunter, and he's insane.(in an accent)...I have here a snake in the wild...four inches to my face...I will surely die."
"We wanted the album to be like, 30 feet tall and 70 feet wide!"
"At the moment I'm thinking sandboarding - like snowboarding but with a water-skiing rope and a four-wheel drive truck!"
"We love it when girls scream for us. We hope they'll be screaming for the next 25 years."
"I am a man with simple needs!"
"I go to a mental hospital every couple of weeks and they do a checkup."
"What's the point of getting a girlfriend when you're 11 or 12? I like girls, but I've still got a few years to go before I have to worry about all that slushy stuff."
© The Wild World of Hanson 1997-2001