The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

Both Bach and Diamond sued the film's producer. The unintended but happy consequence was that Diamond began to gain fame not only as a singer and performer but also as a songwriter. Thus he told Bang ".

Additionally he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and in 2011 was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors. Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24 1941) is an American singer-songwriter with a career that began in the 1960s.