"Then I got engaged and then my father died, two other friends died, and then I got very publicly not engaged and then another friend died," Sheridan said.

"The whole time I was listening to a lot of Neil Diamond, so it was a soundtrack," Sheridan reflected.

"I would put my phone on and say, 'Play Neil Diamond on shuffle', and that song came on," Sheridan said.

"What attracts people to Neil Diamond is his lyrics — or that's certainly what gets me," Sheridan said.

By contrast, Sheridan points to the song Sweet Caroline, which "was actually written about Caroline Kennedy", the daughter of JFK.