Quotes

• Brian: I like steaks, fries, and salad.
• AJ: I know this might sound cheap, but I might take a girl to McDonald's for dinner.
• Howie: The only time I have space is when I go to bed at night.
• Nick: A fan in Japan took me on for Nintendo and made me look like a beginner!
• Kevin: I would like to be the president of the US for one day.
• AJ: I am a big horror movie freak!! I can probably recite every line from Pulp Fiction!
• Howie: I call my house and talk to my family. That's the biggest relaxation for me.
• Brian: If we've been to see a scary movie or something and we're sharing a room, and the lights are off when we walk in, Nick will go 'It's dark in here, isn't it?' And he's not being funny; he means it!
• Nick: Everytime I look at magazines in UK, I see pictures of boybands with their tops off. I just feel that I have more to give than that.
• Kevin: We were at the airport in Philadelphia trying to catch our connecting flight and this lady wouldn't let us board the plane. She was really rude to us so I said, 'May I have your name?' and she said, 'You may not!' Things got pretty hairy.
• Brian: I wished I looked a little older, but right now there's nothing I can do about that.
• AJ: If a girl got personality, that's better than a girl who looks good but id dumb.
• Howie: Hey! I'm Mr. Romantic! I have Spanish relatives, so romance is in my blood!
• Kevin: I don't get jealous if guys are looking at my girl or anything.
• Nick: I'm addicted to Nintendo! I play sports games and adventure games and role playing like Final Fantasy 3. I can't always do what I want to do, like play basketball, because I can't go outside the hotel. So when I play Nintendo, I enter a different world and relax.
• AJ: Touring gives you an incredible feeling.
• Brian: I bite my fingernails. I've bitten them all my life. My mom was always like, 'Get your fingers out of your mouth!' I've tried to stop and it's something that bothers me because when I'm signing autographs, the girls are like, 'You bite your nails!' But I still do it!!
• Howie: The Backstreet Boys will be around for as long as you love us.
• Kevin: I had a great childhood! I loved school, played Little League, rode horses and dirt bikes, and sang into a hairbrush in front of my bedroom mirror.
• Nick: Character is far more important than appearance. I like a girl who's honest; that's very important. She has to have some grit to her, be able to stand up for herself. But most of all she has to love me, of course!
• Howie: I'm sick of Gummi Bears! A while back I said I liked them, but I got sent so many by fans that I was eating them everyday! Now, I'm like 'No more Gummi bears!' I'm trying to keep my figure.
• Brian: We love our fans, without them, we wouldn't be where we are today.
• Kevin: You can't take success for granted or get lazy and slack off. You have to keep improving. If you don't grow as a songwriter and a performer, you won't be able to hold on to your success. You have to evolve over time and keep growing as an artist. That's what we're striving to do.
• Nick: We've learned that our performances make people happy, that's what we're here for.

• AJ: The thing about our music is we have nothing to hide. There is nothing false about BSB. We are a vocal/harmony group, not just a 'boy band.' We want people to know our first priority is really good music.
• Howie: People always jump out at me and I'm like 'Aaaaa!!'
• Brian: People look at us and automatically stereotype, but once they hear us and see us perform live, they know we're for real. It's important for us to be recognized for our music. I think it speaks for itself.
• Kevin: The five us believe that destiny brought us together, and we strongly feel we're touching people's lives with our music.
• Nick: I can be shy around girls. The other guys have far more experience.
• Howie: I said that I wore socks in bed at night and everyone keeps taking the mickey out of me about it.
• AJ: Everyone was afraid of me cause I was such a freak. No one would come near me, they were like 'What the heck's wrong with him? He's so weird!' I didn't fit in.
• Kevin: I chew on my tongue when I get nervous, but I don't think anyone gets annoyed by that. We all sleep in separate rooms so we don't have to put up with snoring.
• Brian: I have two scars where I had my appendix taken out, but only the people who know me really well get to see them cause they're at the bottom of my tummy! I've also got a scar on my head where I head-butted a table when I was 12.
• Nick: The first autograph I signed was when I was 8.
• Howie: Yeah, we pray together. We get in a circle and focus on the show and then we stretch out, warm up, and say good luck!
• Kevin: I wear like the new-style cotton boxers, Tommy Hilfiger ones.
• AJ; I'm not good at secrets, so don't tell me any!
• Brian: I have to have peanut butter and jam sandwiches or I can't survive!
• Nick: My family comes first before anything, they are everything to me.
• Kevin: When you're on the road, it's difficult to keep up with laundry so you find yourself without a cleanpair of underpants. You have no choice but to pop back on yesterday's pair. They tend to be pretty snug though which is lucky!
• Howie: We've always wanted long-term success in this business. We don't want to be a flash in the pan. Some groups come in really quickly, and they're out really quickly. We want to put out good music for a long time.
• AJ: In Germany, someone threw a rock and it hit me in the face during a performance. I though it was a cuddly toy or something. It caught me just above the eye. It was quite a nasty cut. I had to carry on the show, though, as it was part of a pop festival. If it had been our show, I would have got security to find out who it threw it.
• Kevin: My weakness is peanut butter. Oh my gosh! I could eat peanut butter on anything! I like peanut butter and jam on Ritz crackers-I could eat those babies all day!
• Howie: I once put someone's name on the Statue of Liberty. I was going up a spiral staircase that led to the top and I saw everybody else's name and I thought, 'What the heck?' It was mine and somebody else's name in a heart, but I'm not gonna kiss and tell.
• Nick: Anybody can pursue their dreams, no matter what they do; they can achieve what they want to achieve.
• Brian: The other guys make fun of me because I wash my car at least once every week. But after all, it is my first car!
• AJ: I scream, do stupid things, just to get laughs or attention, to get the crowd into a giggly, laughing mood. I've had girls come up to me afterwards and say, 'You are crazy!'
• Nick: I kinda did my hair more sophisticated. I got kind of sick of that old blond parted down the middle kinda rubbish.

• Brian: I've been offered several solo projects but the simple truth is I'm happy where I'm at. There's still so much for us to achieve as a group!
• AJ: Music is love, love is music, music is my life, I love my life. Thank you and good night.
• Kevin: Canadians have those cute little accents, eh?
• Nick: It's about 2 hours sittin' in a chair, not movin' and it's really starting to affect me now!
• Howie: You need a haircut like this to attract women, I guess, I don't know.
• Brian: I was bouncing around from hair to makeup to facial...hair.
• AJ: Smile Howie. Beautiful teeth.
• Nick: Howie's just a little stressed out here.
• Brian: This is called the retro-cowboys-R-us-AJ-look-alike.
• AJ: Gilligan 2000, wave of the future. Hey skipper! Where we goin' today?
• Howie in response: Yo! Homie, we's goin' back to the islands!!
• Brian: That's the man right there! No! See that man right there, Andre? He's the one that put me in this cornball lookin' outfit!
• Nick to Howie: When you come to L.A., you have to dress like this.
• Howie to Nick: No, maybe when YOU come to L.A., you have to dress like this.
• Nick: Well, Howie, what are you dressed like that for?
• Howie: Cuz I'm in a video shoot, that's why!
• Brian: Ohmigosh! Howard! Censor! (in a gay voice)
• Kevin: We are on our best behavior.
• AJ: I got a big heart man!
• Nick: Are you for real?
• Brian: Only 3 years ago (holds up 2 fingers)
• Howie: Wait! Wait! We're makin money!
• Kevin: It's gettin deep in here.
• AJ: My brother Phil, and my brother Bill. Don't make 'em angry!