"I can remember the Chicago winter day I rolled out of bed for work thinking - Am I officially a grown-up? Have I arrived at that benchmark? It's not like you get something in the mail that announces you've now joined the adult club. I didn't feel like an adult. There were mornings I bounded around the house like a jack rabbit, ate sugary cereal, behaved like a 5 year old - but who was I kidding? When I looked around and surveyed all that I had gathered over 30 years - all the stuff, the material possessions, the mental baggage (good and bad), and the ups and downs . . . When it comes down to it, looking at it from that angle I couldn't imagine a more adult version of me. So there I was - kid/adult, Bruce Wayne/Batman - two faces of the same person. The songs on "B" came from that period, the 1st serious love, the big move away from home, the first big job, and everyday encounters that seem to put the layers of kid-ness on the shelf and encourage us to put on more and more of the adult costumes. So I wrestled demons and doubts with lyrics and chords and "B" is what remained after the battle. - AQ Quick Side note: I wanted to find an image from childhood that everybody could relate to. School lunches seemed like a good answer. I found a bunch of old-school fiberglass lunch trays on ebay, I got the worst looking TV dinners I could find, the most generic silverware from the local thrift shop, and some odds and ends from the grocery (the little magnetic alphabet set ended u