PAST APPEARANCES TV-huset
Stockholm, Sweden
09 February 2005KATTIS: Thank you so much. Thank you! Oh, they love you. Isn't that great?
TAYLOR: It's great. Great audience, wow.
KATTIS: Where have you been since your last hit?
TAYLOR: Well, we've been a lot of places. 1, we've been making this album, which is finally coming out after 5 years. We started our own record company, an independent label, which we're releasing this album through, which took some time. And also we did an acoustic tour last year and the year before, actually setting up this album, going out playing acoustically, smaller gigs, kind of intimate shows, and now finally the record's coming out.
KATTIS: If you see, look in the history of children being famous at very early ages, it certainly changed them a lot, messes up things.
TAYLOR: Well you know, for us it was either do it or live a miserable life wishing we had. And this is what we do, this is who we are.
ISAAC: And also Taylor was the guy who said, "if I'm not signed by the time I'm 13 I'm gonna be really pissed!" Needless to say, he was pissed off when he was 13 and he finally got signed.
KATTIS: And what would you say is the biggest difference between you and your friends not working in the music business?
TAYLOR: Well, we're insane and they're probably generally sane.
KATTIS: Let me check some things. Do you wash your own clothes?
ZAC: Yes.
TAYLOR: It depends, yeah.
KATTIS: It depends?
ZAC: He has a wife. She helps him with that.
TAYLOR: Well no, that's not why I said that. Mostly on the road, sometimes you mostly just turn things inside out…
KATTIS: I don't believe you.
ZAC: You don't wash them at all.
ISAAC: Well most of the time you have to like… I have to drop things off… like, this jacket at the dry cleaners. I can't dry clean myself.
TAYLOR: We buy clothes as we go, we don't actually bring any clothes. We just buy them in every city.
KATTIS: Did you buy anything here in Stockholm?
TAYLOR: Well we only got here late last night, so. We knocked on the doors in the morning but they didn't like that.
KATTIS: And what about making pasta with a great sauce?
ISAAC: I do it myself. Yes. Very much so.
TAYLOR: Do you always ask people these sort of random questions?
KATTIS: No.
TAYLOR: "How can you make pasta with a great sauce?"
ZAC: I'm curious… do we just compel you to ask random, odd things? "So, do you believe there's life on Mars?"
KATTIS: I do! *laughs* Last question, what do you think about the note C# that the band was playing before?
TAYLOR: About the note C#? C#'s are nice. I like C#.
ZAC: I think you have to use it cos there's only 12 notes in the standard 440 scale. So unless you're using one of those odd scales with 13 notes, you really gotta work that, because once you write a couple hundred songs, you're gonna need that C#.
KATTIS: Did you have it in this song tonight?
TAYLOR: Actually, let me think about that… there is a C# in this song, yes. Absolutely. The second chord of the chorus.
ISAAC: Hang on, let me turn it on. *strums guitar* There we go… okay, that's right.
KATTIS: C# ladies and gentlemen! Thanks so much. Good luck. Could you please… the next host is hosting something called Kvitt eller dubbelt. Could you just introduce him for me please?
TAYLOR: Sure.
KATTIS: This is the name of him and just make it big.
ZAC: Henrik Johnsson…
KATTIS: And he's quite famous, so just make it big.
ZAC: Henrik Johnsson! Henrik Johnsson!
KATTIS: You can do it in this camera. No, that one…
ZAC: Is this his real name?
KATTIS: Yeah, yeah!
TAYLOR: You want us to say, "here's Henrik Johnsson?"
KATTIS: Yes, okay.
ZAC: That is awesome.
TAYLOR: Hey everybody, we're Hanson. Ladies and gentlemen, Henrik Johnsson on Kvitt eller dubbelt!