Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.Collection: Parenting
Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.
Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.
As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.
I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.
I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.
The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.
Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.
There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.Collection: Letting Go
Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.Collection: People
The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like "hey, we're this new band."Collection: Song
You have to know what you want and keep going for it.Collection: Going For It
Love is putting yourself secondCollection: Love Is
You have to like yourself before you can do anything!Collection: Like You
It's really weird getting phone calls, and people going 'I love you, I love you, I love you.'Collection: Love You
Everything is exciting. Who knows what will happen next?Collection: Next
There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.Collection: New York
He's hard-core, but I think he's actually more of an actor.Collection: Thinking
Hanson has rapid female fans, which I’m completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There’s younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans [but they’re] musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.Collection: Guy
Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car.Collection: Giving