Isaac Hanson Quotes

From Michael Jackson to Peggy Lee, I like it all.

Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.

After I started singing, I'd go to my dad's records I grew up with in his house listening to: Gordon Lightfoot, John Denver, the Carpenters, Bob Seger, Neil Diamond, voices that resonate with you, that you know who they are right away.

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.

When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.

I've always been a fan of Justin Timberlake.

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

I think the first album I bought was The Jackson Five, but the first CD I was given was 'Cotton-Eyed Joe,' the single! Bless my mum - don't know what she was thinkin'!

People used to come home from school and plop down in front of the TV and religiously watch 'TRL.' It was a moment in time that I think a lot of people have a lot of fond memories of. It's a fun trip to take down memory lane because it was a great time for a lot of people, bands included.

I am a huge Justin Timberlake fan.

The first album I owned was probably a Backstreet Boys album, and shortly after was Shania Twain.

My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.

My mom and I used to dance to the Jackson 5 in our living room.

Pop music means everything to me. I've been listening to pop since I was kid, running home from school to watch Britney Spears and Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera music videos, and it felt like it was a world to escape to for me personally.

When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

I'm still a very big fan of Fiona Apple.

My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.

My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in the car, and we'd go on a lot of long family car trips. It was either strange musicals or James Taylor - or Whitney Houston. It was quite the combination there.

I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

Traveling Wilburys was always played in my house growing up.

I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is to say I hear a lot of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder.

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.