A~~"Kevin-I don't know, a lot of prayer."
AJ-"We came together, right now to this day, we're the closet we've ever been, I mean no matter what the extreme...Brian had surgury, Kevin & Brian lost their grandfather, Howie lost his sister, we were going through all kinds of legal battles and we changed management. I mean, it was just a huge emotional rollercoaster for all of us but, we had to come together and make a stand for what we wanted as a group. I mean, it couln't be 2 of us wanting this and 3 of us wanting that. I mean, we came together and said this is what we want to make us happy again. Cause we, honestly, we weren't happy. We were getting up on stage everynight, and me personally, I felt like I was getting up on stage casue I had to. U know? But know, were back to just getting on stage and wantin' to be there, and wantin' to perform and wantin' to be in the studio and we're just physced now, and we're happy again."
Kevin-"We we're approaching a burn-out point. The people that were around us didn't really care about that. And they were only looking at the financial side of things, short term. They weren't thinking about our health and our happiness. And now we have people that do. (The Firm) We're happy now."
"You learn to live with it," McLean says stoically. "Myself and my girlfriend deal with it. You find yourself strategically changing your lifestyle a little. Like, Brian and Kevin and me go out and play golf every so often, because we know you're not going to find a bunch of 13-year-olds running around a golf course."
"You just have to plan ahead," says Littrell, who recently became engaged to actress Leighanne Wallace, his girlfriend of 2 1/2 years. (Richardson, Littrell's cousin, proposed to his longtime flame, dancer Kristin Willits, on Valentine's Day. "They love us for who we are," Littrell says of the Backstreet brides-to-be.) "If you go the movies, you go to a matinee, when the kids are in school. If you go to the grocery, you go at 10 o'clock on a weekday."
