KeatingOrDie

It's 3:30am here and I stayed awake for this because, although I just turned 22, your music and I go way back. As a kid my dad would always have a Neil Diamond best-of album playing in his car when he'd take me with him to his manual labour job to muck around and help out. By the age of 10, those impossibly catchy melodies had all been hardwired somewhere in my brain and Neil Diamond was my rock star. Rather than dream I was a member of Greenday or Coldplay, I would dance around my computer in my singlet pretending to perform "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show" in front of a sold-out stadium. Thanks so much for the singalongs.

I'd like to ask, are all of these great, catchy songs as fun for you now, after so many years, as they were when you wrote them? Also, do you get more headaches from crafting the lyrics or the music?

There is a daydreaming 10yo boy who is smiling and crying within me right now!

I have to go sleep so I can get up for university in four hours, but in the chance you also see this comment thanks so much for your time and your wonderful, thoughtful answer. I'll tell Dad in the morning!

I'm still not even asleep yet. It took me 30 glorious minutes to read his answer because I was so flippy.

Hey,

My friend is doing an internship with IBM soon. He wants to know what the likeliness is that it will effect a job contract with the company and if he'll have the chance to work with Watson.

Otherwise, any tips for him on working for IBM?