SUPERTEEN: Hey, Nick! SuperTeen met you at the very beginning of the Backstreet Boys' career--life must be way different now!
NICK: We're pretty much always on the road doing something active!
SUPERTEEN: We heard that you're recording your second European album, buut that just managed to get some vacation time in...
NICK: Yeah, I did get some time off and I went down to the Florida Keys. It was great!
SUPERTEEN: Since you travel so much, you're still based in your family's home. Have you bought yourself anything special? Or something to fix up your room?
NICK: A couple of thing. I'd really like to buy myself a truck really soon though; I'm getting my license. I do buy a lot of CDs.
SUPERTEEN: Does listening to music make you deel more at home when you're traveling?
NICK: Music, to me, can bring back memories. I listen to old time rock'n roll, alternative, R&B, rap. Depends how I'm feeling.
SUPERTEEN: Who have you been rooming with on the road?
NICK: I room with my parents. i'm under 18, so i still have to have someone with me.
SUPERTEEN: How do the five BSB members cope with all the traveling?
NICK: The traveling does get kind of gruesome sometimes. I'm away from the rest of my family, and I miss them.
SUPERTEEN: What do you do for fun?
NICK: I like to plat a lot of video games and read video game magazines. Sometimes the guys and I play together, or we play jokes on each other. One time on stage, I found myself singing into a banana! They stuck it on my microphone.
SUPERTEEN: What's the girl situation?
NICK: We meet a lot of girls, but we're never in one place long enough for relationships to develop. I'd feel sorry for us if we ded have relationships. it's very hard when you're always on the run.
SUPERTEEN: How does it feel having another single in the U.S.?
NICK: Great! they started playing "Quit Playing Games" in my area, Tampa, pretty early on in April.
SUPERTEEN: How do you think life will change with your album coming out in August?
NICK: We've already had European fans travel to Florida just to see us. Who knows what's going to happen! Losing privacy can be a down side to all this, but over all, it's very flattering.
SUPERTEEN: There are a lot of new young performers in music today. Where do you see the Bakstreet Boys in relationship to them?
NICK: We're a little bit different...Young people can make good music as well as older people, now it's our turn to show the world what's going on.
SUPERTEEN: What do you know now about performing that you didn't know when you first started out?
NICK: We've learned that our performances make people happy--that's what we're here for. And our performances are getting tighter; we're just becoming tighter as a group. And we're really looking forward to doing our show here at home!
This article taken from SUPERTEEN (September 1998)
