Too many kids think condoms are nasty and vulgar, instead of as something that can save your life.
Lisa Lopes
I always felt like, well, if TLC doesn't do good, it's because of our own recognizance.
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.
When we were first recording, I was wearing a bag on my head.
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.
As long as we're great at what we do, we'll be accepted.
The magic of the group has everything to do with the chemistry between myself, Tionne and Chilli. With TLC, it's like, if there wasn't something going wrong, it just wouldn't be right.
I just want credit for my ideas, because I am the creative force behind TLC.
There are plenty of groups that have come out and did whatever they did and have broken up. Especially girls groups.
This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.
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.
Whether it's positive or negative press, it's all good. I do understand the game.
I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.
You know I've been called crazy.
Let it be understood that I am interested in making multimillion-dollar business deals.
Kids listen to performers and we have a duty to give them certain critical information.
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.
In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work.
The truth is, women don't stand up, they're too hushed, they don't like to say stuff.
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 did want to stand for something, not just cute girls with cute concepts. Everything we talk about has meaning behind it.
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.
When we just hang around, our pants are always sagging.
