New York, June 22 : If sources are to be believed, singer Billy Joel and his third wife Katie Lee parted ways after they couldn't agree on when to start a family.

"Billy wanted to get going now. Katie, who's 27, wanted to focus on her career," the New York Daily News quoted a friend of Joel as saying.

However, a friend of Lee said: "That's not true. If anything, it was the other way around."

Recently, it was being suggested that the major reason behind the couple's separation was their age difference.

According to sources, Joel, 60, was just too much of a codger for his 27-year-old wife. (ANI)