Paul Anka has stood the test of time because he’s never treated time like an enemy, he treats it like a friend and a blessing. On Inspirations Of Life And Love, his third partnership with Green Hill Music, the 84-year-old singer and songwriter leans into the kind of lush orchestration and open-hearted romanticism that’s defined his career for nearly seven decades. Strings swell. Pianos glow. The melodies arrive dressed for the evening. And Anka, still touring to sold out crowds around the world, sounds like a man who still loves doing what he started as a teenager. That teenager, of course, was a 15-year-old kid from Ottawa who wrote “Diana” and detonated the pop charts in 1957. Before that, he was sneaking into dressing rooms to sing for Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, hitchhiking to record label meetings in Los Angeles, and driving across the river into Quebec to chase amateur nights. Determination was his first instrument.

The success of “Diana” made him a star. The pen made him powerful. Anka quickly realized that longevity in pop music belongs to the writer. He wrote hits not just for himself but for Connie Francis and Leslie Gore, and wrote Buddy Holly’s final recorded song, “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore.” He composed the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, still the longest running theme in television history. Then came “My Way,” a song he refashioned from a French melody into Frank Sinatra’s signature anthem, and in doing so, secured his own place in the architecture of American standards.

Through the British Invasion, disco, MTV, and the streaming age, Anka never drifted far from the charts. He scored '70s smashes like “(You’re) Having My Baby,” wrote with Michael Jackson on “This Is It” and “Love Never Felt So Good,” and even appeared on Drake’s “Don’t Matter To Me,” a collaboration that introduced his voice to a new generation via 400 million streams. His duets projects, from Body Of Work to 2013’s Duets, made him the only artist to land on the Billboard Top 100 across seven consecutive decades.

Inspirations Of Life And Love fits comfortably inside that improbable arc. The album is steeped in reflection but avoids nostalgia’s trap. Instead, it feels like a seasoned craftsman revisiting the blueprint. The arrangements are grand without being bombastic. The vocals carry the patina of age, not as fragility but as texture. Anka sings about devotion, memory, and strength. The big themes. The forever themes. In recent years, he has revisited classics like “Put Your Head On My Shoulder” and “My Way” alongside Olivia Newton John, Michael Bublé, and Andrea Bocelli. Those reinterpretations dripping with reverence. This new collection carries that same spirit forward, offering fresh material shaped by a lifetime of stages, studios, and improbable plot twists.