What's your idea of a good night at home?
A.J: Sitting in front of a log fire with hot chocolate and marshmallows and some mellow music playing. It'd be great if the moon was shining in, the lights were low, and it was cold outside.
Nick: I'd be at my parent's home. I'd get in loads of food and play computer games all night with my brothers and sisters.
Brian: I'd have one of those huge movie projectors in a big snugly room with a huge soft couch and beanbag chairs all over the floor. I'd make dinner downstairs with the lady of my choice, then we'd go upstairs and watch a movie.
Do your parents treat you special because you're a Backstreet Boy?
Nick: No way. When I go home I still do chores. If I gotta take out the garbage, I gotta take it out!
Do you read your fan mail?
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.
What's the sweetest thing a girl has done for you?
Kevin: Probably the coolest thing was when I was really sick and this girl I was dating rang her mother to get a recipe for chicken noodle soup, and she made it for me from scratch!
What surprises you most about being in the recording industry?
Nick: The biggest surprise for me was walking into a store and seeing our single in a shelf. I couldn't believe it--it was sitting next to all these artists!
Brian: It's a lot of work!
Kevin: The whole process of how the recording industry and the radio stations and the record companies work, as far as production in the studio. I've been soaking it all in. It's been a great experience and we've learned so much.
Do any of the Backstreet Boys have a secret?
AJ: I'd like to do a movie with either Geena Davis or Dustin Hoffman. And to play the bad guy. I would love to be the villain, because everybody seems to love the villain more! I mean, the good guys win, but the villains are the ones everyone likes.
If you had three wishes, what would they be?
Brian: I would wish for lifelong health for me and my family, success in life, and a beautiful wife and family.
Howie: Since we've traveled all around the world and seen many countries and new faces and new places, I would wish for world peace, seeing everyone live life to the fullest, no hunger, no poverty. That would definitely be my first wish. My second would be to be able to have my family with me everywhere in life. And my third would be just to be successful with the Backstreet Boys and us to continue the rest of our lives together.
Kevin: A long, long, happy career in the music business because I love music and without music I don't know what I'd do. I'd like to have a nice family, so I'd wish for a nice wife and family someday, and uh, just health, good health.
AJ: I wish for the knowledge to press on and be as successful as I can with these 4 guys till death do us part. wish for a long, long, life of health with my family and make sure that they can have their dreams fulfilled, as well as mine. And to keep doing what I do best and to never quit.
Nick: I wish we could have great success with this group, just like the other guys said. I wish I had a long life. And last, but not least, I'd like to say that we've been around the world and we've seen things from good to bad, and I just wish for world peace.
What's your first memory?
Nick: Most of my good memories are since I moved to Florida. But I do remember falling out of a tree when I was really young, and hiding from my sister BJ, who was playing on the swing. I lost balance, fell and hit my head on the bottom of the tree. I cried real bad!
What's the most important thing your parents taught you?
Howie: To be honest, to be truthful to myself and to the people out there. And that there's nothing we can't accomplish in this lifetime, and that we should just go for our dreams.