Did you draw from any real-life run-ins with attorneys when getting into the Billy Flynn character?
I've definitely come across some shady characters in the music business.

Do you have much in common with Richard Gere (who played the same role in the film)?
He played an older, more mature attorney. I play it more like a young hot shot. But I liked the choices he made.

You're 32 years old. Does being part of a 'boy band' seem a little strange to you?
The term "boy band" just makes me sick to my stomach. Nobody ever called Boyz II Men a "boy band." We're a vocal group – the Jackson Five, or the Temptations, or Jodeci, New Edition – that's who we drew our inspiration from.

Is there a future for the Backstreet Boys?
We would love to record another record. We owe it to ourselves and our fans. We've never done a Christmas album yet, which is something we'd love to do. But we want to do another original LP. Right now it's just that Brian (Littrell) – my cousin – and his wife are enjoying being parents, Nick (Carter)'s putting a record together, Howie (Dorough)'s gonna do a Latin record, Brian may do a gospel record. But we've all enjoyed a lot of success together. We've been in each other's faces for 11 years now.

You also opened a music school in your home state of Kentucky?
Me and my best friend Keith. We've been writing music together since I was 13 – he was my bodyguard on the road for five years. He's 6'3", a football player. We opened The Music Workshop in Kentucky, a seminar to give students a whole grasp of the industry. There's no place like that in Kentucky or the surrounding areas.

You and the Boys learned about contracts the hard way, right?
We're not the only ones. There's tons of artists who had bad contracts.

Are you and your wife (actress Kristin Willits Richardson) doing any traveling while in Britain?
I want to go see Stonehenge.

What about concerts?
I got to see the Stones the other night. It was my first time seeing them live, and Mick Jagger's still got that energy.

So your trip to England is really all about seeing various stones, then?
(Laughs.) Yeah, I guess.