Time & Perspective Quote by Isaac Hanson

"We have a good time and try not to kill each other" is the kind of line that pretends to be a throwaway joke while quietly doing damage control. Coming from Isaac Hanson, it lands as band-survival humor: a breezy, quotable way to admit that the dream job (making music with the people who know you best) is also a pressure cooker. The phrasing matters. "Good time" is bluntly wholesome, almost aggressively non-dramatic, while "try not to kill each other" spikes the sentiment with mock-violence, the classic sibling exaggeration that signals closeness and conflict in the same breath. It’s not a confession; it’s a wink.

The intent is twofold: reassure and humanize. Hanson has always been packaged with a certain clean, family-forward mythology, and this line subtly updates that image for adulthood without breaking it. Instead of feeding the rock-band narrative of chaos and implosion, he offers a safer, funnier version of the same truth: creative partnerships are emotional labor. The subtext is: we fight, we clash, we get on each other’s nerves, and we still show up. That "try" does real work, acknowledging effort without inviting tabloid specifics.

Contextually, it reads like an answer to the perennial interview question about longevity, especially for a sibling band whose audience watched them grow up. It keeps the brand intact while making room for the messy reality underneath: stability is not natural, it’s managed.