Most albums take a matter of months to complete, at most a year or two.
Watching Over You has been 27 years in the making. The ideas and emotions contained in it are retrospective of Phil's life up to the present. The result is a solo album in the truest sense of the word because it's a story only Phil could tell. Here, Phil Joel takes some time out of his busy schedule to let us in on the making of such an album. We all write our own music, and in the course of the last six years, I've written certain songs about circumstances in my life.