Zac Hanson Quotes (11 Quotes)

It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.

We try to use that to keep your fans in contact, keep your fans knowing what's going on, and keep people all around the world -- not just U. S. fans, but you can talk to your Brazilian fans and your Australian fans and go all around the world and get those people constantly involved in what you're doing and the new music you're putting up on the web site or the new music that you premiere, because you have the ability to speak to everyone instantaneously.

We're not unaware that we're reconnecting with people and a few of them might come to the concert.

We've been involved in starting a web site called 'Are You Listening' which is just a forum to bring small band communities together to create a larger group of music fans, and bring -- maybe one band has 20,000 fans and one band has 3,000 fans -- and bringing them together in a way that the 20,000 can find this other music.

The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

It's the people who come out to the shows and the people who buy the albums who actually matter. Everyone else is actually icing on the cake.

A trailer to the documentary is available on the Underneath Acoustic Live DVD and online , and based on that trailer, the documentary appears to have an unblinking eye. Of course, Hanson is no stranger to being filmed. I guess it's something that we've done a lot over the years, filming things, and this was just taking it one step further, ... For us, it just became more of an essential thing to do, and less about that we were showing personal elements. It's more about, this is such an incredible thing to show people. Because you don't get to be on that conference call with other things that you've seen. You don't get to be in the studio or watch somebody come up with a lyric. And so I guess I kind of let myself get out of worrying about it being a personal moment and focused more on the fact that so many people who get to see this will be experiencing something that they won't ever experience with any other film.

It didn't end up being that film because there was a lot of stuff that went on that we didn't -- no one could have anticipated forming our own label, leaving our label, the long waiting period and sort of the bureaucracy of working through major label mergers, new staff that had no investment in what we'd done in the past. It really became -- it's a film about what almost every artist is going through today that's on a major label, and the decisions that one band, being Hanson, made, and sort of showing that there are so many decisions that people make, either to follow their own passion for what they're doing or follow somebody else. Or there are bands that just fall apart from the process.

You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?