AJ: I think to have patience with everybody... with your friends, with your family, with yourself. You know, good things come to those who wait... If you have the pateince to go through the hard days and the hard process, the hard work... I think we've all achieved many of the goals that we wanted to achieve and still have many more to achieve.

Nick: Another big lesson that we've learned is that it's not as easy as it looks... You know, we though that you sign a contract and you get to go in a studio and you're handed a big check. And it's not really like that. It's a lot of hard work in the end hopefully things will pay off.

How do you deal with less favorable reviews?

Howie: ... We're constantly reading what's been written about us just to make sure that everything is, you know, up to date, and what is said is really the truth coming from us... We know that not everybody is going to like the Backstreet Boys... There's going to be some that really accept us for us for who we are and some thing are going to want us to be something we're not. But we always take it for what it's worth, if there's something we can take from it, and try to use it as a motivator - positive criticism to help ourselves become better - then we definitely try to do that. Especially when it's people in the industry, music critics who have good ears... we're just going to find it within ourselves to keep ourselves happy. And as long as we feel like, we're making good music and we feel like we come across ascredible people, then you just have to get to the point of pleasing the audience that's out there.

In your off time, do you hang together? If not, what do you like to do?

AJ: Sleep

Howie: ... Normally on the road, on our off time, we hang together a lot. We go out to the movies we go out to clubs, some of us play basketball together... but a lot of times when we come home, since we never come home... since we're hardly ever home we spend a lot of time with our families... but if we are at home for an extended amount of time we do get together...

If you weren't a Backstreet Boy, what would you be doing?

Nick: I could answer this probably for all of us. We'd either be doing some kind of entertainment... singing, maybe acting or something like that. I think also Howie would probably be going to school still. I'd definitely be in school still.

Howie: College for me.

AJ: I would be studying like pschology. I just like getting inside of people's heads.

Nick: Yeah, that's right.

Kevin: I'd be doing some music or acting. I love entertainment, I love music. I'd be doing some producing or writing as well.

Howie: I probably would do like Kevin. Doing ither singing or acting. Hopefully by now I' d be finished with college. So I probably would either go to college for communications and music. But now actually learning what I've learned in the music business, I think I would have probably switched over to business by now.

If your house was on fire and all the people you loved were out, what would be the one thing you'd go back and get?

Kevin: I have some pictures of my mother and father that I just brought from Kentucky. It's weird that you asked that, because I was visiting my mom (my father passed away a couple of years ago) and these are pictures of them when they were dating. So those are pretty special and irreplaceable. I'd probably grab those along with my keyboard.

Howie: I'd grab my gold reocrds, my first (special) release, our first gold record. I mean, if I could grab them, I'd grab them, but that would be kind of hard. I'd have to grab all of our records and our awards just because it shows our accomplishments and, you know, it's history.

AJ: I'd probably grab - this is going to sound really cheesy - my Frank Sinatra rug and also, if I still had it which I don't anymore, my blankie. I don't have it anymore because it got stolen from me on tour once, but if I still had it...

Nick: I think I would bring my Nintendo.

When do you plan the world tour?

Kevin: ... It's going to start in Europe end of November through December. Then we're going to break for Christmas. And then we're going to be finishing Europe and Southeast Asia, South American and Canada and North America.

AJ: It's goig to be a big one!

How have you handled success and how has it changed your life?

AJ: I think it's really limited our time with our friends and families. But it's allwed us to grow together more as a family and more as group. But you just find that you can get thigns that you never thought you could get and do things that you never thought you could do... And you can kind of get better Christmas presents for your family and stuff like that... it's a blessing in disguise and hopefully we can keep it going as long as we can.

- SuperTeen

December 1998