While most famous music-makers spend their lives in the fast lane splurging on all that money has to offer, Brian Littrell of the Backstreet Boys admits that he'd prefer a night at home with a rented video and a basket full of dirty laundry over a limo-escorted evening out on the town anytime. However, this is not to say that Brian hasn't enjoyed the last five years he's spent with Kevin Richardson, Howie Dorough, AJ. McLean and Nick Carter, performing mega-hits like "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" and "I'll Never Break Your Heart" off their 1997 self-titled CD. It's just that if he was given the opportunity to take a time-out from his hectic schedule of tours, interviews and public appearances to enjoy the simpler things in life, this 24-year-old sweetheart would jump for joy.

"I miss the stupidest, most simple things in life," he blushes. "Just like having time to do your laundry. I know that sounds really ridiculous, but I miss having time to take a walk in the park and have a picnic with somebody, or to just get in my Jeep and drive or wash it, even lay on the couch some Sunday afternoon and do nothing at all."

Well, although he says he'd enjoy doing nothing with his free time, we saw the real Brian shine through when he excitedly told BB about how whenever he gets the chance, he loves volunteering at a local high school back home near Lexington, Kentucky. "Having experiences like that," the humble-hearted guy says about working with students, "kind of takes you out of that [celebrity mind-set] and keeps you normal." From the sound of this simple pleasure-loving sweetie, Brian's about as normal as you can get.

Source BB magazine

Although it's been only two years since the Backstreet Boys edged their way onto the American music charts, it was eight years ago that the Backstreet Boys first came into being! Of course, the group was just a trio comprised of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough and A.J. McLean until 1993, when cutie cousins Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell hopped on board to create super-hot singles like "All I Have To Give" off of their 1997 self-titled CD.

Currently awaiting the spring release of their next album, it's hard to imagine that these now-multi- platinum singers were just regular ol' faces in the crowd. However, 24-year-old Brian still remembers the day he crossed the line from being just one in a pack to becoming known as one of the Backstreet Boys as if it were yesterday.

"Wow, man, I remember we were in some fast-food restaurant, this was like in '93, this was a long, long time ago," he fondly recalls to BOP. "When we first got together, we were touring all over the United States doing high schools and middle schools...We had been to a school that afternoon in a particular town and this girl came up to me. She was like, 'Aren't you a Backstreet Boy?.' She's like, 'You came to my school today.' And I was like, 'Are you sure?' And she was like, 'Can I have your autograph?' and all this, and I was like, 'Whoa! You know, this is strange!'"

That "strange" encounter has since become an ordinary occurrence in Brian's life. And even though this blue-eyed sweetie's still shocked by the attention, he accepts it for what it is--and he never lets it go to his head. "It just comes with the territory,' B-Rok says of the superstar status he enjoys today, "but at the same time, you just want to be as normal as you can be."

Source BOP magazine

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