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

I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.

How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends.
If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.