You can't use the fact that I'm bisexual against me if that's something I'm proud of.
— Lauren Jauregui
Having those positive friends around can really make a difference in how you view yourself. It's helped me realize that there's no such thing as having a perfect body, and just because I'm not shaped the same way as another girl is, it doesn't mean I'm not pretty. It just means that no two girls are alike.
When I was in fifth grade, I got bullied really nastily about my appearance.
It's cool to be able to give each other that space to really explore ourselves individually and grow.
When someone like me, who is in the entertainment industry, which is a huge falsity of its own, tries to talk outwardly about politics, especially as a woman, I receive a lot of 'Shut up - just sing and dance for us, you idiot.'
I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.
You can't help it as a human being when you're put under so much scrutiny by multiple people, not even just one person in real life, telling you something. It harms you.
It's amazing the support we've been able to get from Latinos and just in general from everyone.
For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot growing up.
I'm everywhere; I'm just a soul that's floating around here on earth.
There's straight people, and there's super gay people, and then there's everybody in between, and everybody is a little bit of something because sexuality is fluid.
We've digressed from the true meaning of life. We have replaced the Creator with money and claim Him in the name of war. We have dishonored our children.
I'm marching for women; I'm marching for the LGBT community. I'm marching for immigrants. I happen to fall into all three categories, so I'm marching for myself at the end of the day and for my family and my friends. And for whoever else deserves it.
They sell you this present of rainbows and butterflies, and as a 16-year-old, that's what I bought. It's why I did 'X Factor' and why I ended up in a group. But then you're working so hard, so young.
That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.
For me as an artist, pop culture has so much power and influences society on a regular basis - I see it in the kids; I see it in everyone that I encounter. Everyone is influenced by pop culture whether we want to be or not.
Growing up in Miami, being Cuban is integrated into our culture. When we greet anyone, we give them a kiss on the cheek.
If you love women, and you want to sing about love, don't feel the need to say 'he.' Don't feel the need to adapt to the society or the culture.
You need to accept yourself for who you are and surround yourself with a good group of girl friends that'll lift you up instead of put you down.
Don't lose your love for yourself and how much you've grown and how far you've come.
Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.
I love music; I love performance. I love everything revolving around art. But I also am really passionate about politics and human rights and science and the environment. Those are things that fascinate me.
I've been outspoken forever about everything.
I feel like a lot of people disregard the scrutiny that people like us are under.
I think Ed Sheeran would be a great collaboration.
I like the ability to engage intellectually with someone. I get so bored so quickly, so if you can't keep me interested, then I'm out.
Honestly, like, I fall in love with souls, and I don't really even see anything but that, to be honest.
We're all really passionate, and we voice it in our own way, and we all come from a loving place and see from the same perspective, which is why I feel so blessed to be part of this group.
This country was built and continues to survive off the backs of immigrants and refugees.
We're learning the business, meeting people we need to know, getting knowledgeable about our craft.
If I could tell every Trump supporter two things, it would be to travel and read a history book. Look beyond yourselves; look at how petty the morals you uphold seem when you realize we are not the only ones.
We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged... we want to give them new music.
I needed our fans to know they're loved and accepted, and fear isn't the way to go.
I wasn't born into a family that told me that I wasn't capable of what my brother was capable of. I can do anything.
I don't know if anyone should do anything that's not authentic to them.
Kids would tell me I was fat and say other mean things about my body.
What I would tell everyone is don't lose your sense of individuality.
I'm actually a huge fan of changing every single 'anti-Trump' sentiment to 'pro-human rights' because they are synonymous.
Women are super-dynamic. I can be whatever I want to be. I can have interests in so many different kinds of things.
We are screaming battle cries against those whose political and personal agendas threaten our lives and sanity.
We're not all thin model types, and we're not all perfectly colored. It mind-boggles me that somebody would take time out of their life to make someone feel inferior because of something like that. That, to me, is insane.
I love Celia Cruz - she was also a huge part of my childhood. She's an iconic woman.
For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.
My theory is the spectrum: there's a spectrum of sexuality.
I feel like all four of us are really powerful in our messages, what we speak about, and what we are about.
When we all start to wake up and realize that our comforts are fleeting, and more money is never going to save this world, maybe, just maybe, will we be able to return back to the grace of America's principal values.
I rekindled a friendship I hadn't had in a long time, and I was reminded of all the parts of me that had left. I was like, 'Wow, I love to paint and to write and to be outside.'
There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.
We should care about each other.
A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.
