NICK CARTER & AJ MCLEAN: Interview @ Bunter Magazine [Germany]

For the past 16 years, the Backstreet Boys 'girls' hearts collectively bring with songs about love, longing and Teen dreams to melt. With their new album "This is us," present themselves as the erstwhile youths seasoned men - both musically and humanly. And even though Backstreet Boy Brian Litrell is just suffering from swine flu and so had some promotional events in New York City to be postponed to know the Backstreet Boys: The road will go to the top.


TOPIC: Online: You are the most successful boy band in the world. Your success story began in 1993, which continues to this day. You do not you sometimes feel like an old couple who lived through the decades together?


Nick Carter: Basically, yes, but we learn something new every day about each of us. And that's the beauty of it. We have the great fortune to a family inside and outside the band to have. We are five brothers. Kevin is still our brother, even though he is no longer in the band. We are a tight-knit course. We have taken an oath, which may dispense with any more or want.


AJ: (laughs) Exactly! If one wants to flee, we will chase him and get around the corner!


Brothers for eternity sounds great, but it is sometimes you do not belong on your nerves?


AJ: We know the buttons of others that we need to press to go on our nerves and to know the buttons that we need to press to make us laugh. Each of us is the other for so long a part of life that we know the brightest and darkest chapters of each.


Say, you also talk to each other, if you have personal problems?


Nick Carter: I would throw myself for each of the guys in the band in front of a bullet, because I know that each of them would do the same for me too. It has created a camaraderie, which can be explained only with difficulty.


Some married, others are still single


If you you look at the past 16 years, how has your personal life and your life changed as a musician?


AJ: Some of us are now married and have children, of course, changes everything, because it shifts the weighting of values. The band is suddenly no longer the only thing in life that brings you fulfillment. For those of us who are still single, the band is all we have. Howie, Brian and Kevin also see things differently now.


Often imitated but never duplicated. With over 100 million sold records you are officially the most successful boy band in the world. What is your secret that you even after such a long time are still top?


Nick Carter: Never say no, do not accept defeat and never give it up. We have always set new and higher goals, have looked with joy in the future, without repeating mistakes of the past. Many artists live only in the successes of the past, we've never done.


Nick, lately, you can follow your life now on Twitter. Why? I would think that someone who is so often the public has no desire to make public even his private life ...Nick Carter: Hmm ... maybe you're right, but I like it simply because I like to write and everything else can post there, simple thoughts or selbstverfasste poems. I've been using Twitter more as a blog.


AJ: Nick has set itself with Twitter pretty hard on the nettles. He wanted an e-mail with all sorts of data such as address, phone number, phone number forward, but unfortunately all this information ended up on Twitter. Within a minute, shouting like crazy girls from all over the world on his cell phone, which was really crass.


Love tattoos, or rather not?


Nick, You have once said that it is for someone who is constantly in the spotlight, very difficult to find true love because you never know whether they are really well off the fame is as a man is loved. Did you find the glory of the great love, then hurt more?


Nick Carter: It has its good and its bad sides of being famous. The trick is to balance private and personal. Over time I learned to read people and their intentions even better.


The tattoo of your ex Paris Hilton have you been with a skull painted over. Would you ever let you sail again for a girl a tattoo?


Nick Carter: I would do it again. When a relationship comes to an end, just leaves a scar, and often in two respects.


AJ: I've also let me sail times a tattoo with the name of a great love, but I would never do. The only name that I would get a tattoo I have ever, is the name of my children and my mother. And has both the girl was not at all happy about the tattoo and said only: Why on earth did you do that? Since I made up with her.


Apart from the stress of romantic relationships with each of you have suffered through hard times right. AJ, you have your drug and alcohol problems overcome. How did you get that out?


AJ: The band and my family have helped me, and I've realized one thing: I'm not perfect and does not even pretend to be perfect. I know that we are often seen as role models, and since, of course, weigh every misstep doubly difficult. But most important is not the end of the error, but the way how to deal with it.