"Her personality, her energy, pressence and her appearance are important to me."--Kevin

"I love what I do but someday I want to do something different."--Kevin

"We've been together every day for four years now....It's like family. I never had a little brother, but now I've got four."--Kevin

"Obviously we can't read every letter. We've set up fan clubs to help us. Usually we pick fans in different countries to help set up and organize the fan clubs. They help us answer all the mail we get."--Kevin

"My mom and dad taught me to be polite so I always believed in ladies first."--Kevin

"I'd still love a girl just as much if she wasn't gorgeous. There are so many other things like personality, humour and goodness."--Howie

"I love hugs and kisses. I think it's because I grew up in a big family. Even now I grab my mother and give her kisses all over her cheeks and she's like, 'Oh, Howard, pleeeeease!'"--Howie

"Considering we're with each other 24-7, we've grown to love each other. We have a tight bond. We know which buttons to push and which not to."--Howie

"We consider ourselves pop R&B. We all grew up listening to the same style of music."--Howie

"I prefer to talk from my heart and go with the way that I feel."--Howie

"One thing is for sure, if Nick wasn't in the group, it wouldn't be the same for me."--Brian

"Since we've started, we've been really lucky with the people who support us. We've got some brilliant fans."--Brian

"Backstreet Boys only sing live and do five-piece harmony, a cappella....We just want to make everyone realize that we are real, there's nothing fake...."--Brian

"Once we were performing a song from the new album on stage and I had to sing the first two verses. The dance routine was really difficult and I was concentrating so hard on it that I blanked on the words. I ended up just humming along. The others were useless. They were (cracking) up laughing and didn't try to help me out at all!"--Brian

"We finally have time to focus on our homeland. We got our start everwhere else, all over the world, except home, so it's time to just come back, relax a little bit, and focus on the U.S. fans."--Brian

"I drove into my apartment complex, and (the fans) know my car because a picture of it had been in a magazine. And these two girls-one was from Germany and one from Switzerland-were sitting right in front of my apartment with their pens and paper, and they jumped up as soon as they saw me."--Brian

"I was two-timed by a girl in high school."--Brian

"For Kev, some rave clothes. For Howie, one of the body shirts he wears. For Nick, a video game. And, for B-Rok, a pair of phat sunglasses."--A.J.

"I'm going to try to chill out on McDonalds food."--A.J.

"I embarrassed myself when we did a photo shoot where I dressed as The Riddler in this green spandex outfit. I mean, I looked like Jim Carrey! Anyway, I went out on stage and introduced our two opening acts dressed like that. The audience went absolutely nuts and all the guys were tripping out-they were, like, 'I can't believe you did it!"--A.J.

"We've done it a couple times before, but not to strangers."--A.J.

"We had to name it something, and we knew we wanted to add 'Boys' at the end of it-kind of like the Beach Boys. So Backstreet Boys was just a name that we collectively decided on."--Nick

"We've been at radio stations in Germany and had to climb out of the windows to get out of the place. But in the end, it's all fun. We sit and laugh about it."--Nick

"No matter what happens, if any of us go off, we're always going to come back together. The Backstreet Boys' name will always be there, no matter what."--Nick

"I think my ears are too big. They stick out."--Nick

"It's really flattering. I love the attention and I always think, why do they like me?"--Nick

"We are really close. It's hard to say exactly why we get along so well. Our personalities just seem to click."--Nick