Zac Hanson Professions : Musician Born : October 22, 1985 Browse All Authors Top 23 quotes by Zac Hanson Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself. Zac Hanson giving-up keys love-is When you become a band and you've got people who want to be a part of your experience or want to get close to you for what you are, not who you are, you have that challenge of trying to find out who's genuine. Zac Hanson challenges trying people I don't think that having a family changes the way we tour as much as it just changes the personal perspective on wanting to get finished with the tour, or the reason you've got to go out and bring home the bacon, that kind of stuff. Zac Hanson perspective home thinking I dont usually have dreams. I'm to busy sleeping to dream. Zac Hanson busy dream sleep It's hard to find people to trust in the record industry, always. It's an industry with a lot of bullshit. There's a lot of people who are in positions of power that really know nothing and care for nothing. So I think, yeah, you learn pretty early on that you've really got to trust yourself more than anybody else, and that nobody's going to care about what you do more than you. Zac Hanson bullshit people thinking I'm about to turn 24, but I'm probably closer to the average 34-year-old in a lot of ways. I never had the problem of, "Who am I and who do I want to be?" I've known for so long, so I think that's why getting married made sense early. And then the biggest factor is just finding really incredible women. I think that's the part about being in a band with female fans: You get to meet so many women, and you figure out pretty quick which ones stand out in the crowd and which ones are really connecting with you. Zac Hanson female long thinking 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. Zac Hanson different may people People have told me to have sex when i feel the desire to, but right now i have no desire to pull my pants down in front of a girl. Zac Hanson girl sex people I don't tend to get girls as fans. I just get all the young guys and weirdos. Zac Hanson fans guy girl Something in me wanted to find out how far I could run without stopping. Zac Hanson stopping wanted running It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them? Zac Hanson who-cares nice jobs A girlfriend? No thanks, I'd rather play nintendo and build my lego set! Zac Hanson nintendo girlfriend play For us, being a label, we took out the whole aspect of the business that goes into sifting through people who don't care, who don't get what you're trying to do. We can just hire and work with people who get it - the people who understand what this project is about. When you're on a label, you're just hoping somebody will stick their neck out and work for you. Most bands are just like, "I hope they do it. I hope they promote it." But being a label, we know exactly what's happening. Zac Hanson care trying people Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees! Zac Hanson bigs together tree We've been touring for so long and people ask me every once in a while, "What's it like working with your brothers?" and I go, "What's it like not?" Our first paying performance, I was 6 years old, you know? I almost don't know anything else, so I guess it feels pretty normal to me. Zac Hanson brother long people God just told me to shut up! Zac Hanson shut-up I'm the wacky one. Wacky. Wacky. Zac Hanson wacky I think for us, we don't feel like the future of music is in the act of being a record company. We feel like the future of the music business is in empowering artists to have better and better tools to communicate with their fans. We want to be people who are saying to artists, "Look, you don't need that company over there to release your album. You can do it this way." Almost more of a band partnership than a label-artist relationship. Not about ownership of content, but about empowerment. Zac Hanson artist people thinking Save a tree, eat a beaver. Zac Hanson beavers tree It's all about going out there, performing live, making music. But, obviously, being a guy who has thousands of screaming female fans doesn't exactly make it less fun Zac Hanson fans guy fun Similar Authors Adam Jones musician Izzy Stradlin musician Bon Scott musician Brad Delp musician Brad Delson musician Brian Eno musician All Authors