"My siblings loves coming with me [to auditions] and stuff. The little ones were so young then, they didn't really know what was happening. My first commercial was for The Money Store, I was about ten. Then I got called by the Mickey Mouse Club and the Backstreet Boys all at the same time. It just changed my whole life- I was twelve going on thirteen. Of course, I turned the Mickey Mouse Club down for the Backstreet Boys! It was kind of scary,: there were meetings and talk about when Backstreet Boys were going to get a record deal... But we did quickly become local sensations! We did malls and worked around in local places. I was the youngest, the next oldest was AJ, next oldest was Brian, next was Howie and the oldest was Kevin. I was probably closest to Howie, Brian and A.J. at the time. When we began travelling together and rooming together, I turned out to be the one who liked to sleep the most. A.J. ate the most -- and I pulled the most practical jokes! I brought my Super Nintendo with me too for whatever free time I had. In those days, when I was at home, I went to Universal Studios a lot -- I like to ride Jaws!

I'm actually afraid of sharks for real! I had a dream one time, the worst dream in the world: I was on the back of a big cruise ship, and I leaned over the rail. We were in the Bahamas and the water was crystal clear. This lady pulls up on a red jet-ski and we're talking to each other. Suddenly, there's this 26-foot Great White shark! You could see it's shadow underneath herm and I yelled to her. I said, 'Jump!' and 'Watch out!' She jumped and grabbed on to the pole, where I was leaning over and I tried to pull her up. The shark jumped out of the water and grabbed her and pulled her down under. That's like my worst dream ever! That's the only thing I'm most afraid of. Years ago, when I was showing off on my bike and broke my right arm, it didn't scare me as much as the though of sharks -- and I did a 360 in the air and landed right on my arm! I'm generally not a scared kind of person. I try to be funny, but I'm not really funny that often -- I just keep quiet a lot. I'm interested in girls, but it's hard to find a girl who doesn't just like me for what I do, but for who I am. I don't really test the girls, you can just tell. When I was in school, I used to come home with letters -- this was when I was really young. It was so funny, my mom kept all these letters that I came home with in my book bag! These girls, I can't remember how young we were, but they would write stuff. They could hardly even write their names, but they were writting 'I love you'!

It was so funny in a sweet way! I was looking back on it, and they had like hearts all over the paper... My family keeps me humble though, I still have to clean my room and put my dishes in the sink and stuff. My room's got a lot of posters in it, my drum set, my bed, a VCR and a TV. It looks like an old '60s room. I enjoy the times when I can get home with my family, but Backstreet Boys are my family now too -- and we want to stay together."