Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had back in the Seventies. But I've come around. Ballads have become something of an acquired taste.
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I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
I just love ballads. I am obsessed with them, so I've written a lot of those. They just kind of touch on all the different types of emotions. Though, I think poppy, feel - good songs are underrated and not seen as artistic enough.
I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.
Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.
I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.
Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.
I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.