Ever wonder do they snore?
Taylor: Everyone snores a little bit, I guess. But nobodys a big snorer in this band.
Zac: I've talked in my sleep once, but...
Isaac (interrupting him): Zac's done it a couple of times. It's quite funny.
Taylor: Sometimes, people do a few weird things in their sleep, but we never do anything really odd. Zac sometimes gets up and walks out of the room. He'll go to the bathroom, come back and not remember it the next day. But that's not THAT weird.
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Aren't some of them too young to get in R-rated novies?
"No!" protests Taylor. "We watch some many R-rated movies (the American equivalent to our 18 certificate)!"
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What do they ever fight?
Taylor answered "Well, We fight mostly about girls...Women!-------just kidding"
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Ever wonder what's their favorite item of clothes?
Zac : erm, clothes!
Isaac: Shoes!
Taylor: I have to go with boxer shorts. (They all laugh.)
Zac: My blue-and-white biker pants. I got them in New york. They're from Diesel. I've been wearing a boiler suit too! Someone gave it to me and I thought, "Why not!"
Taylor: He thought afterwards he could go on the freeway and repair a few cars. (Laughs.)
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When they behave badly, do they get a smack?
Zac :That stuff really doesn't matter.
Taylor: Our parents do their job.
Zac: I guess we won't answer that question...
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What country would they most like to go to?
Taylor: The United States! (Laughs.)
Zac (loudly): Er, Mars!
Taylor: Thats another world, but...
Zac (louder still): The Moon!
Taylor: We've been all over south-east Asia, all over Europe...
Zac (yelling): Saturn's rings!!
Taylor: Zac! I guess Africa would be a really cool place to go.
Isaac: That'd be awesome.
Taylor: What we've seen so far has exceeded any of our expectations. Most people don't get to see what we have seen in our entire lifetimes. We're lucky.
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What do you think God looks like?
Zac: I'll pass!
Taylor: I think thats an immpossible question to answer. Nothing like us, that's for sure.
Isaac: Because the minute we say something, God goes, "I don't think so!
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What's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?
Zac (baffled): Um, a lightbulb?!?
Isaac(in put on dorky voice): Yeah a lightbulb. It was shiney and stuff. I think that's a really impossible question to answer. There's a lot of things to see...
Taylor: You go to Paris and you see Notre Dame and the River Seine. You go to the louvre (huge famous art gallery)...
Zac: Yeah the Louvre! (They argue about the pronunciation for a bit.)
Taylor: The glass pyramid in the middle of the Louvr is pretty amazing.
Isaac: Pretty Cool.
Zac: I wanna climb it, and fall through it wit a parachute... (goes a bit barmy) Ya! Ya! Cool! (Responding to his brothers disapproving looks) OK, I'll be quiet.
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What does success smell like?
Zac (loudly again): like your armpit!
Isaac: Yeah, like YOUR armpit! No, success has absolutely no smell.
Zac: It's not important in our eyes. All that really matter is making music.
Taylor: People ask you what its like when your successful and it's kinda like when you have a birthday. It's Amazing.
Isaac: But you're still the same person that you were. It doesn't change you in the slightest. The fact that you've gotten this opportunity...
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What was the last nightmare they had?
Isaac: It's not important. My dreams, your dreams... they're all dreams.
Zac: You dream about what you're thinking about that day.
Taylor: A dream happens in the middle of your sleep after you've slept really deeply. Its the bit just before you wake up. It only lasts about twenty minutes.
Isaac: And as the disney song says, (singing) "A dream is a wish your heart desires."
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Who do they like?
"Cindy crawford," Tay and Ike say "And how about Cameron Diaz," adds Taylor "She's cute. We're looking forward to seeing a life less ordinary." Isaac, meanwhile is miles away, imagining a date with Cameron. He puts on a daft voice. "I'd be like, "Hey Cameron! HELLO!" Zac butts in loudly. "I'd ask if she made cameras or something! Is that why her name is Camera?!?!" Isaac is still thinking about laydees. "We actually MET Cindy Crawford. It was awesome. She's really really pretty... and hot!" Taylor joins in wistfully. "Yeah, she was really REALLY nice..."
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When you guys are 35 years old, what do you want to be doing? Same thing?
Zac: I wanna be sittin’ on the pot. (laughing)
dave: filled with money
Bubba: I mean, seriously, when you’re 35 years old, do you want to be retired or do you still want to be performing?
Taylor: No, we wanna...
Isaac: I want, hey 35...
zac: We wanna be sittin’ on the pot!
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Do the Hanson guys have girlfriends?
Isaac: No we don’t.
Taylor: Nobody has girlfriends.
Zac: no.
dave: you don’t have time, do you?
Isaac: no, we don’t.
Taylor: it would be kind of hard to have a girlfriend...
Isaac: well, first of all, our girlfriend, everytime she would see us she would probably beat the crap out of us because she’s so mad at us that we’re not around
Bubba: you’re exactly right
Zac: and then...
Taylor: she? Ike, you’re talking as if we would have one girlfriend out of the three of us.
Bubba: (laughing)
Dave: I was gonna say, she?
Zac: and then when we would see her we would just go down and take a nap and sleep.
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Isaac whispered "Just ask me anything personal, I'll tell you!!!!!!!!"
So funny Zac took the video camara that the news guy had been using and acted like he was the interview person!! So he asked Ike "How bad do your armpits smell?" and Isaac answered "Oh...bad...semi-bad, some of the time...not all the time!" And then Zac (using the video camara) mmade an extreme close up of Tay and Zac yells kinda loudly "Look! Taylor, I see a ZIT!!!" Taylor looked like he didnt really care though. He just laughed and said "Hey, Zac...close enough!!!!!"
So, how come you're not at school then?
Isaac: Well, we're touring Europe promoting our single and album.
Taylor: We started performing in local venues in our hometown, Oklahoma, USA. Since then we've written hundreds of songs and now we have a record contract. So that's why we're not at school.
Zac: We never went to school in the first place anyway.
Sorry?
Zac: We were home-schooled. Our parents teach us and we also have a tutor who teaches us when we're on the road.
Isaac: Loads of familes do that where we're from - home schooling gives you the opportunity to go after your own interests, you're allowed to go with your own flow!
Do you, erm, have many mates then?
Taylor: Oh yeah, most familes from around our way have at least five kids, we have home school co-ops where a group of us all get together to study.
Isaac: The disadvantage of school is that there's this age thing where they seperate you because of your ages. People always ask me what I'm doing hanging around with Zac, but the truth is I never think of him as being younger.
We often hear rumours of pop stars losing the plot a bit when they find stardom at an early age, does this worry you?
Taylor: Ha, ha, ha! Our friends have alrady said to us, 'If you start going weird we're going to sort you out.'
Zac: Yeah, we're not going to start having nose-jobs or anything. It's cool! I mean, how many 11-year-olds get to tour Europe?
But what if you make tons of money? Are you going to blow it all on fast stars and extravagence?
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 have 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.
Do your friends treat you differently now?
Taylor: Well, to be honest we've never been kinda normal so our friends are used to it, I mean, we're weird in a way, it's not every kid who sings with his brothers for a living.
Isaac: My friends work in a pizza shop near our home, it has a TV in it and when our video was on MTV, they got in trouble for watching it instead of working. But they told their boss, 'They're the Hansons, they're our friends, man!' Our friends are cool about us.
Zac: When we get home, our friends will just say, 'Wow, it's cool you were on TV. Are you coming out?'
What keeps your feet on the ground?
Isaac: Our family. There are six kids in our family and with our mum and dad we travel everywhere together.
Zac: It helps being from Oklahoma - it's not exactly LA or anything, people are quite down to earth.
Taylor: It's important to stick with your family and friends. Look at the Bee Gees. They haven't gone out and done anything crazy, have they?
What about in-Hanson fighting, surely you must have the odd scrap?
Taylor: Nothing serious, we just play tricks on each other. Like Isaac is a real romantic and I found this love letter he wrote to a girl once, it was horrid, I threw it in a fountain. When I was little I couldn't care less about girls, I just wanted to throw tomatoes and stuff at them.
Isaac: I never knew you threw it in the fountain!
You all must receive plenty of letters from girls now.
Zac: Girls! Girls are so cute, they write letters telling us they love us.
Taylor: We know it has nothing to do with us though. If we weren't on stage singing I don't reckon we'd be getting too many!
Isaac: The attention hasn't gone to our heads just yet!