Lisa Lopes

Kids listen to performers and we have a duty to give them certain critical information.

Girls groups tend to break up more because sometimes it's hard for women to get along. And everybody is like, 'They're breaking up over silly stuff.' That's not the silly thing to me - to break up. The silly part is that you couldn't get back together. It's about working out, because everyone has their differences.

We didn't know we might become role models but it's good that we did because if you're put in a position like this, you should try to make a difference because a lot of kids today don't have role models.

We're not hard-core feminists. We like men and we like to have fun with them. But we also want men to think about females in different ways.

As long as we're great at what we do, we'll be accepted.

We try to teach women how to be strong, how to believe in themselves, how to make themselves happy, as opposed to pleasing someone else first.

I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.

Too many kids think condoms are nasty and vulgar, instead of as something that can save your life.

Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it's not really made for artists to get rich from selling records - that's the company's one shot to make money.

Everything that we know in the business we've had to learn from mistakes. No one sat us down and taught us or even said, 'Go pick up this book and learn for yourself.' We trusted people.

Let it be understood that I am interested in making multimillion-dollar business deals.

This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.