I want to give the girls who admire us everything I can. I don't want to just fill them with selfies and crap. That's not what I'm about. I'm about, 'Be aware of the world and that you're not the only one in it.'
— Lauren Jauregui
I have a lot of people in my life who support me.
I've always been passionate about human rights in general. I think anyone who knows me can attest to that.
I feel like, especially being around other girls, it's really easy to start picking yourself apart and being like, 'Wow, she looks better than me.'
I feel like people make such a big deal out of sexuality. It's so weird to me, because at the end of the day, it's just about soul connection. It's just about who you connect with.
I think pop culture has always influenced society.
I am proud to be a woman.
When you really break it down to the way the world works, we're all little humans floating on a gas ball in the middle of space. That's the reality of our situation. And we've created these concepts and constructs that move us away from that.
Doing something that is your passion, in my case related to music and art, being a performer playing shows around the world, that is a dream come true.
As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.
I just don't feel limited by genre.
When we auditioned for 'The X Factor,' we were five individuals going into the show. That obviously means we are five solo artists in our beings, so we have our own creative ideas, of what sounds the best music-wise, because we are all artists.
I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from '90s influences.
I am proud to be part of a community that only projects love and education and the support of one another.
It's hard to accept yourself when you live in a world where nobody is like you, or you feel like nobody is like you because there's no representation.
Two powerful women making art together is always really cool.
We had so many of our fans tell us how worthless they felt before they found out about us and watched our interviews and listened to our music.
I'm so proud of my girl Kehlani. She and SZA are killing it.
I've always had this sense of justice - I get that from my mom, for sure. When you see stuff that's wrong, it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.
My grandparents and my mom came from Cuba back in the '60s because they were fleeing from communism and Castro. I wouldn't be here otherwise.
Some of our songs are empowering, but I feel like more so than our music, it's who we are. We're four women who are completely different ethnicities, completely different body types, completely different walks of life and opinions.
I feel like our fans identify with us because they're like, 'I'm her,' or 'I don't look like any of them, but I'm different like them.'
It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.
I am proud to be the granddaughter and daughter of immigrants who were brave enough to leave their homes and come to a whole new world with a different language and culture and immerse themselves fearlessly to start a better life for themselves and their families.
If you connect with an artist because of what they make as a body of work, you feel like they're your friend. You feel like you're on the journey of connection with them because they see the world the same way you do. That's so powerful, and if you use that, you can genuinely change minds.
I gave my life to this without knowing what I was doing. I was very little when I started in 5H: I was 16.
I really, genuinely don't look at my schedule too often, because when I do, I get a little overwhelmed by how much is going on.
I'm proud of myself, and I'm going to continue to grow.
I'm either dressing like a rocker chick, or I'm looking like I just stepped out of ancient Greece! It all depends on my mood. I love bohemian vibes, too.
It's good to be an anarchist and just love yourself.
A bunch of my fans have come up to me and said, 'Because of you, and because you came out, I have finally begun to accept myself.' That is infinitely incredible for me. I didn't expect to get to the point where I would own up to it within myself.
I am a bisexual Cuban-American woman, and I am so proud of it.
We want to just make music that impacts people - we don't really care about the rest.
I love every time that I get to be on a stage with Halsey. She's so incredible.
I went to a high school that taught me to be more worldly. The whole curriculum was very globally based. We learned a lot about other cultures and reflected on them.
We like that when girls look at us, they don't see perfect little blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie dolls.
We have an energy about us that's so unique and so intense, and it's because of how much power we have in us as individuals, being confident, harnessing that power, and wanting to share that with other women.
Read your contracts. Up and down, left and right.
I was raised to feel that I can do anything, and I will always believe that.
Amandla Stenberg is so powerful in her energy and what she speaks about and what she projects. I think it's incredible.
I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.
I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.
Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.
We all allow each other to explore our individual things that make us happy, and so we're just being supportive of each other and making sure we focus on Fifth Harmony, and what's important to the group is important to all five of us.
I like to dress in edgy black leather and denim, but I like a wide range of things.
Even the fact that I labelled myself makes me mad sometimes, because dude, I'm just a free spirit.
For me, coming into my own and being comfortable with myself really changed me as a person and made me more confident and vibrant.
We know how hard we've worked, we know how our choreography makes us feel empowered. We have our voices, which are incredible and kind of surpass anything else.
I would say that regardless of how the brand has been created, we are four hard-working women who have succeeded in making our dream to become artists a more possible reality through this.
