Customize Signup Form (add an intro sentence)

You can make those fields required.

You can also turn on the developer toolbar and find that there’s a plugin outlet create-account-header-bottom.

oh! And Custom Components -- add button or text at any plugin outlet will allow you to make a bit of text that gets inserted there.

You’d need to do a bit more work than I did to make the HTML and/or CSS such that it would put the text exactly where you want it, but this is a good start.