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Backstreet Boys are back with their much anticipated comeback album! Nick Carter spoke to NW about the new album and about his personal life(which is always juicy).

Read the full Q&A below:

__You've lost one of your members, Kevin Richardson, who quit last year. Was it hard to go into the studio without him? _It was definitely a little weird at first - after 14 years of being in the same band, it's just kind of a shocker. But we got past that. In reality there are no hard feelings and it's one of those things where we've just got to move on. And I don't know if you've looked at the music in depth, but it still feels like the Backstreet Boys, you know.

____Is it true that former *Nsync star J.C. Chasez wrote some songs for the new album? _ _Well, no, he wrote one song. He and A.J. [McLean] wrote a song together and we liked it, so we decided to record it.

____Has it weird to put the old *Nsync/Backstreet Boys rivalry to one side? _ No, not at all. It felt great. I don't think there's rivalry in the pop industry to that extent anymore. Just to be in the same boat [as J.C.] and reminiscing was great.

____Does it grate to still have people calling you a "boy band"? __No, because they don't say that anymore. We're like, "Backstreet Boys are still here - they won't die so, whatever!"

____You have huge fan support. Do you have the same people turning up to your gigs as in the early days? _ _We have some new fans and we definitely have some older fans. We treat them very well and we love them very much, that's why they stick around. We understand they are the best, we know that.