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I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a Yanni was. I just thought I was in love with a Japanese man who wrote beautiful music.

I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.

Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.

My wife forever has made fun of my Yanni CD that I had in college.

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.