He made the album in isolation after he stopped touring with the Beach Boys, working in the studio oblivious to commercial prospects or to whether the elaborately orchestrated songs could ever be played in concert.
"Baby, I love you more than I could put into words and more than any song I could ever write," he said, going on to call her his "rock".
According to Steinman the song was inspired by Wuthering Heights, and was an attempt to write "the most passionate, romantic song" he could ever create.
I have a few favourites: Yesterday, because it's as great a song as could ever be written, and the fact it has been covered thousands of times attests to that; and I love, Here There and Everywhere, and Maybe I'm Amazed.
And their silence in light of recent events resonates louder than any song they could ever make.
According to Steinman, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" was inspired by Wuthering Heights, and was an attempt to write "the most passionate, romantic song" he could ever create.
That really tells you all you need to know, but if you want more of all you need to know, this might be even more cold, calculated, and crassly commercial than "Timber," because Ke$ha is offensive to squares, and there is nothing about this song that could ever piss someone off.
Almost any song you could ever want is on YouTube, and there are many simple programs to turn YouTube videos into mp3's.
The band told Rolling Stone that they wanted to write the "hardest, most extreme songs we could ever write", for their followup to the Mercury nominated Silence Yourself.
