I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

- A. J. McLean

Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

- A. J. McLean

There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.

- A. J. McLean

I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

- A. J. McLean

I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.

- A. J. McLean

I shop more than most women.

- A. J. McLean

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

- A. J. McLean

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

- A. J. McLean

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

- A. J. McLean

We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.

- A. J. McLean

Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

- A. J. McLean

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

- A. J. McLean

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

- A. J. McLean

I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

- A. J. McLean

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

- A. J. McLean

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

- A. J. McLean

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

- A. J. McLean

I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.

- A. J. McLean

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

- A. J. McLean

You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

- A. J. McLean