Moss and his wife, Shari Shattuck, welcomed a baby girl, Creason (a name from Moss' side of the family), into the world Feb. 26, 1994. "I really had no intention of ever getting married," he confesses, "so the idea of not having a family would've been fine with me. But somewhere in the last eight years I have definitely changed that attitude."

Asked how that came about, Moss says, "Meeting Shari. She's brought a stability to my life. She's a grounding element for me." They met making "an HBO-ish movie" he doesn't want to identify by name ("because it wasn't worth anything," he smiles) in which she had the lead and he played the supporting role of a night-club cad. "We hit it off immediately," he says. They were kindred spirits, he feels, because she had grown up independent, too. They were married Jan. 1, 1990, "the first day of the new decade," he says, describing in very romantic and poetic terms their nuptials on the African plains. In '92, Shattuck briefly appeared on B&B, playing a model named Heather who helped Ridge in a scheme to send Brooke back to the arms of Ridge's dad, Eric.

The other major change in his life, Moss says, "was finally reconciling with the idea of wanting to have a little girl. We do want to have another child. A boy would be fine, but another little girl would be great, too. But a little girl first. It worked out exactly how I envisioned. I visualized this for so long."

Moss is a great believer in the positive effect of visualization, which he says he practices "constantly. Envisioning what you want, how you get it, how the whole scenario plays," he explains. "It doesn't necessarily mean it will always turn out that way, but you have a much better chance of completing that goal and having something happen in your life if you set it up in certain ways, I'm not one of those people who believes you just ask for things to get them. You've got to work hard to get them. You've got to set up the game plan - and that's physically and mentally. So before I would have a child in my life, I had to prepare myself. Seriously prepare, because for so long I was not of the mind to have a child, that I had to get my mind accustomed to the fact that I would have to know how to raise a child, do my best to be tolerant and grow with her and learn with her and do everything that you do when you have a child."

Moss says the mental planning included pretty much going back to day one of your own life and relearning a lot about yourself. That's kind of what a child does - it makes you look at yourself again, and grow. You have to get accustomed to, 'What will I be like when this little child is in my life, and she has to take priority over everything?' They have to be tended to and cared for and changed and wiped and cleaned and everything that is involved with a child. You have to think about all those things, because once the child comes, you can't just go, 'Oh, now what do I do?' I like to be a little more prepared that that, because I want that little girl to have the best beginning she possibly can," he smiles, "and if she has an ignorant parent wondering what the hell he's supposed to do with the diaper, then she's not off to a good start. So from going from a very mental image, a visualization of this in my life, I was able to make it happen and have it pretty much go along as I envisioned it.

"You can't envision everything," he cautions, "but you can definitely set your path and make the cosmos - whatever you want to call it, the energy out there - know that you're ready and responsive to it happening the way you want it to happen." The first year of Creason's life has sped by "amazingly fast," says Moss. "She's a joy. She's gotten so big and matured to quickly. She's been walking since she was nine months old. Not only walking, but climbing, going up ladders, tumbling." When he's not with his wife and daughter, Moss is in the recording studio he built in their home, where he and Peter Beckett, a friend and original member of Player, are recording and mixing two new albums (one for release in Asia, the other for the U.S./European market). They're reviving the Player name for these albums, which have no specific themes. "It's just our songs, our style. It's very much blue-eyed soul, R&B, the kind of rock 'n' roll where you can understand the lyrics," he grins. "We're still very strong on vocals. That's kind of our forte." Moss plays guitar, bass and some drums on the album, too.

Music is an integral part if his life, says Moss, "even though, to me, it's the most intangible of the arts. When you hear that music, it goes into your senses. It's something you feel. Singing and playing give me great pleasure."

Pleasurable, too, for Moss is his prized motorcycle, a Harley Davidson Electra Glide, full-dress model. "That's pretty much my stable form of transportation," he says. He admits he doesn't like helmets, "but I wear them...I'm always careful on the bike. I'm not one of those guys who speeds through traffic. I ride it just like a car." With a sheepish laugh, Moss admits that he has visualized his baby daughter astride the bike with him. "Oh, yea, I could see it - riding her around the neighborhood - but I forgot all about the legalities of it. She has to be a couple of years old. She has to sit upright and wear a helmet.I've got about another year, and then, she'll ride with me. I think that's something she will thoroughly enjoy - as will I."

It's time for Moss to run lines with co-star Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke) for scenes being taped this afternoon. As he goes out the dressing-room door, he smiles, gives a sturdy handshake and kindly offers, "If you need more, give me a call."

The guy who believes he hasn't changed much in the last eight years doesn't realize that he's already revealed just how much he actually has changed - and it's all to the good.