Band Quote by Isaac Hanson

We've never been ashamed of the fact we are, first and foremost, a pop band.

— James Righton

We just thought that bands from the U.S. in general were just really boring, and they didn't represent what we felt pop music should…

— Ron Mael

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

— Chris Stein

We never really dreamed of being a band until it just naturally happened. All of a sudden, we were like, 'Maybe we should take…

— Matthew Ramsey

We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had…

— Morten Harket

We're proud of the position we're in in pop music - we feel like we're in a unique class.

— Russell Mael

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first…

— Alice Nutter

We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never…

— Chuck Comeau

We're kind of a weird band anyway, where we never fit in with indie or pop. We never really sat with either of those…

— Katie White

We're a rock band. We're proud of it. We're not an art band, a noise band, or an extreme band.

— Lee Ranaldo

We came along at a time when people were really focused on music. We were part of the second generation of bands after all…

— Dennis DeYoung

What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.

— Isaac Hanson