TEEN BEAT: What is "A Day In The Life Of Brian" like?

BRIAN LITTRELL: When I'm not working I wake up about 10 or 11. I make some coffee-some Starbucks coffee, sit on the patio, and enjoy the sun for a little bit. I get in a frame of mind for what the day will bring, whatever it is. For fun, I have a driving range-a golf range-near my house, so I go out there and hit some golf balls. Nobody in the world knows about this place-it's really small, so you don't get bothered. I'll go run some errands, pay some bills, make some phone calls. Business doesn't really stop--A do laundry, get the work done on the house, deal with the carpenter, deal with the wallpaper-the everyday things. It's tough being out on a world tour and then coming home and dealing with the carpenter! I had French doors put on the house, and trying to upkeep everything-getting everything the way I want it.

TEEN BEAT: What would surprise people if you said, "I do this around the house?'

BRIAN: The normal upkeep of the house. I don't have a maid come in and clean, so every time you have company, you want the house to look nice. I spent all day Sunday vacuuming the house and I swept all the tile in the kitchen and bathroom, and mopped the floors-I mean, I used to do that! I was a part-time janitor when I was 16 years old. I used to mop floors and clean toilets. It's just normal stuff. We come back home from tour-everything is dusty, you're sneezing everywhere. It's like you think you're In a movie-a horror movie! Everyday life doesn't stop because I do what I do with the Backstreet Boys. It doesn't matter to the exterminator. It doesn't matter to the people who are working on your house and want to be paid.

TEEN BEAT: Do you have any pets pitter-pattering around the house?

BRIAN: I have a Chihuahua, Little Tike. He's 4 1/2 pounds. He's got such a personality. He doesn't yip. A lot of little dogs are bad and they bite your ankles. He's just Mr. Lovable.

TEEN BEAT: Do you cook at home?

BRIAN: A little bit. We have a grill out on the deck, and I cook burgers and steaks.

TEEN BEAT: How does your life change when you're away on tour?

BRIAN: People think our lives are exciting because we travel so much. But think about when you get home from a vacation, and it's that Sunday, before you go back to work and you've got all those obligations to take care of-you're drained. The stress of traveling and dealing with crowds drains me. And then I'm thinking about what's to come in the week ahead, and I get depressed. You had fun on your vacation but it took everything out of you at the same time. So you're going into the next week of work tired. And you're thinking about the fun things you did, but at the same time ... That's how we live our lives. We're constantly popping to different places, and doing stuff. It's not that we don't enjoy it. I think I've lived the past two years of my life having that constant tiredness about me. It takes it out of you, and sooner or later it catches up with you. For-the normal person, that vacation is once a year-and it takes it out of them in that one week!

TEEN BEAT: If you could stop right now-if you said, 'OK, I've had enough, I'm stopping right now'-what would be another lifestyle you would choose?

BRIAN: I would probably still write and produce songs. I would probably go back to school, maybe go and be a teacher, either a music teacher or a physical education teacher, some- thing like that. It's easier to be a teacher than a student-the song I did for my mom, I used the high school choir I sang with in high school. I was directing 45 people on risers, and I had a new found respect for my teacher growing up. I was close friends with my teacher. Outside of class, we were close friends, but inside I was his student and I had that respect for him. Now I really see what he was doing. I flew back home to Kentucky, and walked in to my high school music room, got all these kids on the risers, and I'm telling everyone what to sing.

TEEN BEAT: Tell us about the song you wrote for your MOM.