- It's just a project that I've been wanting to do
and I finally have the chance to do it.
- Do you feel like the States are different
or the fans different here as compared to Europe?
- Yes. The German crowds are much more hype
than the American crowds
but for the German crowds
for Backstreet Boys,
they about four-500 of them passed away.
Not passed away but passed out.
- Passed out? Yeah, wow!
The State is that crazy, huh?
- Yup, in Germany they do that.
In Spain it's really worse.
- Really?
- Wow. So, in this country do you find like,
as you go from town to town,
more and more people know you,
and know your music and,
do a lot of people come up to you?
- Yeah, lots of people.
- Yeah, how about all the fan attention?
I mean, I'm sure Nick is used to like the craziness by now.
Did you get use to it even before
you started going out there?
- Well, I used to go on tour with him
and I used to get asked for autographs.
So, I guess that's pretty much how I learned
how to sign 'cause my autograph used to be like this.
I used to just spell my whole name out
in proper handwriting.
Now, I can go like this.
- Just do a quick-
you have to, right?
- Yup, 'cause it takes me about a minute
to do my whole signature when I first started,
but now it takes like five seconds.
- So, what was your brother's reaction
when it became obviously you were going
to put your own record out?
Was he all totally supportive?
- Oh yeah.
He's always wanted me to do this job
that I'm doing right now
and he just looks out for me a lot.
- Do you have other brothers and sisters?
- I have five people in the family.
- Do they want to get into music to?
- Yeah. Just the one of them.
Her name's Leslie.
She wants to get into music.
She wants to do type of folk music.
So, it's pretty good.
- So I know the song Crush On You
but tell me about the rest of the album
and what people can expect who haven't heard it,
like what else is on it?
- Well, they can expect
good songs on it.
- Who did you work on?
Who did you work with on it on the record?
- Who did I work with?
I worked with a producer,
his name was Gary Carolla
and he did all my songs
except for two, no,
four.
No, five.
Six.
(laughs)
- Some like that.
- Yeah.
- Yeah. So you're doing an Osmonds cover too, right?
Yeah.
- That's, that's seven.
(laughs)
- How did you discover that song?
Someone brought to you and said-
'cause I mean, that song came out long before you were born.
- I might have been taught of.
- Alright, exactly.
You were taught back then.
- I don't know, I don't know how it came up with that.
I just like oldies music.
It means not really oldies
but it's a popular old-
okay, you can't say it's oldies.
- It's kind of oldies 'bout 20 years old
or something or more, actually 25.
- Yup.
- So, you're going to be out on a tour all summer long?
- Yup, a whole tour.
I'm gonna be out here.
- Is it a lot of fun for you or is it what you like?
- Really much, it's really lots of fun out here,
really much.
- Do you get tired of all the traveling and all that?
- No, not at all, not at all.
- Cool.
And are you going back to school this fall
or you're going to stay with a tutor or?
- Yeah, I'm going to have a-
well, I just went on to fifth grade
and the funny thing about is that most kids
in normal school do like six hours
and I only do one hour a day
and most kids get like an average grade level.
When they're going on to fifth grade,
of like six or seven
and I got a 7.9.
So almost eight grade average level.
- That's great.
- And it's kind of weird 'cause I only do one hour a day.
But in normal school you do six hours,
but the thing about is the teacher's paying attention
to you and not just everybody else.
She's not just sitting at her desk
and waiting 'til you finish.
She's helping you along.
- And that makes the difference.
- Yeah