Mixing the single "Boy Seventeen" and getting really tired of hearing it.

My studio took up most of the living room. Guitars and keyboards and scores of test CDs were constantly scattered all over the floor. I spent untold hours in that room working on "The Secret Life of Boys" album.

Cool thing about that room - which was on the 6th floor of Potomac Place apartments - is that it had a huge sliding glass door with a great view of the Washington monument. Fourth of July was amazing because I could be sitting in my air-conditioned living room-studio working on a song and watch the fireworks going off on the other end of The Mall.

DC 2002