humble and very thankful to be living my dream, to be in a studio; every day I went there, I was like, "Woo hoo!" So of course I did it. I took the song home that afternoon and played it for my friends -- they always came over at the end of the day, and they'd want to know what was going on. There were only a few friends that knew I was recording or that I even sang. They loved the song. Right away, they were, like, dancing to it and jumping around and "Oh, this is a cool song!" And I was like, "Okay, well I want to be cool!" [Laughs.] It really took me a while. I would say I got into it more and more as I performed it in the malls, and I saw the connection that people had with that song in different age groups. Moms would walk over and be interested because they knew that song. Then they would kind of go, "Oh, my daughter would like you! Let me go get her. " And then the kids liked it, so I think that's what has kept me -- not interested in the song, but loving the song. I never get tired of singing it. It really is the way it makes people feel; there's just something about it, that it bridges all of those age gaps. It's so funny, because I still go to England and other places and they tell me