You can't use the fact that I'm bisexual against me if that's something I'm proud of.
Lauren Jauregui
I am proud to be part of a community that only projects love and education and the support of one another.
Read your contracts. Up and down, left and right.
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.'
I'm everywhere; I'm just a soul that's floating around here on earth.
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 am a bisexual Cuban-American woman, and I am so proud of it.
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.
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.
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 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.'
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've always been passionate about human rights in general. I think anyone who knows me can attest to that.
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.
Don't lose your love for yourself and how much you've grown and how far you've come.
We should care about each other.
It's good to be an anarchist and just love yourself.
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.
For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.
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.
Women are super-dynamic. I can be whatever I want to be. I can have interests in so many different kinds of things.
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 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.
This country was built and continues to survive off the backs of immigrants and refugees.
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.
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.
We want to just make music that impacts people - we don't really care about the rest.
I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from '90s influences.
I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.
For me, coming into my own and being comfortable with myself really changed me as a person and made me more confident and vibrant.
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.
I feel like a lot of people disregard the scrutiny that people like us are under.
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.
I think pop culture has always influenced society.
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.
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.'
I gave my life to this without knowing what I was doing. I was very little when I started in 5H: I was 16.
Two powerful women making art together is always really cool.
I'm proud of myself, and I'm going to continue to grow.
I love Celia Cruz - she was also a huge part of my childhood. She's an iconic woman.
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.
I needed our fans to know they're loved and accepted, and fear isn't the way to go.
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.
I've been outspoken forever about everything.
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.
I am proud to be a woman.
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.
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.
Honestly, like, I fall in love with souls, and I don't really even see anything but that, to be honest.
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.
