Quotes from A. J. McLean

I shop more than most women.

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

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

Keep your head up and be patient.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

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

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.

I am a huge animal lover. I prefer to rescue any of the pets that I have had.

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

Meditation is a huge part of my life. And prayer.

The relationship between father and his daughter - there is no other love like it and there never ever will be. It's beyond unconditional and is the best form of love there is.

The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.

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

I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

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

Accept life on life's terms and just let things go.

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

When I came out in the public about my struggles with alcohol and drugs, that's probably the most vulnerable I have ever been in my entire life.

I do believe that there is a greater being that has brought me this far through life. Something or someone is on my side teaching me valuable lessons.

Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.

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

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