No Man is An Island was inspired in part by an autistic child but was written for everyone who has ever felt set apart from others - physically or mentally marooned. Shipwrecked, if you will.

"It's not a three-minute pop song. It's a powerful piece of music and I felt it important to follow where the music was taking me, rather than me trying to

No Man is An Island was inspired in part by an autistic child but was written for everyone who has ever felt set apart from others - physically or mentally marooned. Shipwrecked, if you will.

"It's not a three-minute pop song. It's a powerful piece of music and I felt it important to follow where the music was taking me, rather than me trying to compress the song into a cookie cutter format," explains Rusty Wright. "I wanted to create art instead of just another formulaic commodity. This song is much longer than most radio hits but only because it has so much to say. The lyrics speak of sadness, of feeling apart, like a castaway on an island who, through no act or fault of their own, has been placed apart from the rest of the world. From that description you might think it’s a depressing song, but the music builds to this soaring organ and guitar crescendo as the song progresses and it leaves you with this feeling of having triumphed over adversity."

"We knew we had something special when we performed it for the first time at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago. We had just started performing it live. We hit the last note and heard this wave of sound roll at us from the audience as the entire place stood and roared their approval. You always dream of moments like that. Buddy was in the audience that night and later, as we got a photo with him he told me "You're great, man. Don't you take s*** from anybody." At that moment I felt my life was complete," laughs Wright.