Ike, being the oldest, is often known to speak for the group. He can be zany one minute and the next completely serious. Here are a few interesting things that have left Ike's mouth. "We bring a journal with us all the time. We write down everything that's going on." "We're allowed to date, but the girlfriend thing probably wouldn't be a good idea. A girl would probably not want to deal with me." "It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first now-and hopefully forever." "I don't think we want to get into the whole dating thing. I think it's about the music. It's not about that kind of thing." "It's not about you. It's about the position you're in." "MMMBop is about a realtionship. the first verse says, 'you have so many relationships in this life, only one or two will last; you're going through all this pain and strife and then you turn you're back and they're gone so fast.' MMMBop is actually a frame of time." "Playing guitar gives you a whole different inspiration than the keyboard, and we needed that different inspiration." "Seeing all those kids down there just come to see you play....that's a pretty great feeling." "We have a great realtionship with each other. We're best friends, basically. So we have no problem working with each other. We get in the occasional argument I guess, but that's part of life." "When you sing live, you have to have something to give people. You need something to hand out to people that says 'This is who we are'." "I used to be the goofiest and then Zac just kind of took over." "Well, I think I'd say if anybody has 15 minutes to listen to the album, I'd say listen to a minute of every song. It's really hard because theres quite a bit of variety to the songs-one makes you want to dance, it's really up and makes you feel good. And then other ones are really intense- its' like WOW, now that what is this about? And then other ones are just mellow. We write every one and then every one has a different meaning to us." "I'm definitely very goofy." "Everytime we picked up the phone we heard screaming girls." "We've gone from getting five e-mails a week to 700." "It wasn't quite MMMMMMMMMBop and it wasn't quite MBop, it was MMMBop." "I think music is a part of us and it's what we've always done. We intend to be doing it for a long time. And if we weren't doing music, then we wouldn't be who we are, because music is our life." "You have to remember that this kind of thing can go, just as fast as it can come-and it's come really fast, so it can go just as fast." From Michelle Mustafa: "You're sitting in a department store, and everybody looks at you, and you're like 'Hey, it wasn't me it was my little sister!'" (i love that 1!~Michelle) "Kick it, Tay!" "Tay, kick one four Christmas, baby."-from Run, Rudolph, Run on the Snowed In album "Oh, really"-british accent From E=mc2 "Ohmigosh, Sears is having a sale!"-from Tulsa, Tokyo, and the Middle of Nowhere From Spidie69: "Hi, my name is Joe. I will be your tour guide for today."-from Tulsa, Tokyo, and the Middle of Nowhere From Reggie5683: After their trip to london ike was known to remark-"The nice thing about England is they actually speak english" From MartinL: Zac was talking about frog and he thought that everyone should have a frog in their bathroom and Ike said "Wasn't that one of the ten commandments. Thou shalt have a frog in thy Bathroom." From Louise: "Tay, you may want to blow your nose." "Girls definitely do not have coodies!" "Wouldn't that be cool if there was like a chick on stage." (In a Butthead voice) From Heather: "I'm retarded!" "Nobody knows who you are, and, you knoww, that's cool for you!" -MTV Scrapbook, about Oddville "He's, like, the Unknown Spielberg!"-about Zac, MTV Scrapbook "I'm about to, uh, launch myself 150 feet up in the air! I feel queasy!"-TTMON From Terri: "We have a situation!"-TTMON LOL, How could I have forgotten that one! I love it! ~Thanks, Terri "Oh my gosh, Sears is having a sale!" "Michael Jackson's like two notches below you and your like... you just sit back and your like... that's weird!" "It's the Zoe thing."-- He said that on Jay Leno when they were talking about chores and they started talking about why they didn't like to take the trash out. He was holding his nose when he said it. "Hi! My name is Joe and I will be your tour guide for today." "Very, very scary!" (He said that with a really weird accent!) "Thank you for joining Billy Bob in Billy Bob's Billy Bob tour of the Billy Bob sequoias. Thank you very much! Bye, Bye! Billy Bob." "I think we all agree with that." Talking about fave school subjects on tt&mon "Yellow is in." Talking about there yellow shades in tt&mon "Yeah but they have a lot of calories" Talking about twizzlers in tt&mon. From (oops, I forgot to write this): MY FAVE IS WHEN IN TT&TMON HE SAYS, "WE HAVE A SITUATION" Do I hear an echo, lol THAT'S COOL AND SO IS "HELLO AND WELCOME TO HANSON'S TOUR OF LONDON" AND " I AM ABOUT TO LAUNCH MYSELF 100 FT IN THE AIR. I FEEL QUEASY!!" From James: Tay says something in the background about caveman people and Ike says, "Oh, dear goodness," in the "Joe" accent. Zac makes a funny noise and Ike says, "Here is the oldest caveman child- He is retarded one." "Here is a young cavedweller, running back and forth beating trees."-All from tree documentary in "Tulsa,Tokyo, and the Middle of Nowhere" From Sarah: IKE IS TALKING ABOUT PICK- UP LINES-"HEY YOUR LAST NAME MUST BE GILLETE 'CAUSE YOUR THE BEST A MAN CAN GET!" From: Shannon King "Wouldn't it be cool if ther was like some hot chick onstage!" From: GartHanson_kicks@yahoo.com "Look at this, look what you did to his shirt. I mean c'mon, that's cruel...indecent killer fish." (TT&MON) "It's very, it is quite odd." (TT&MON) "That's actually really good." (TT&MON) "Oprah, I will come to you, don't worry about it. You just stay right there in that seat, 'cause I'm comin' baby." (Oprah Show) "Hello my dahling, I love you." "I'll be there for you...'cause I will come to you."

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