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Lovers come back. Styles come back. But time? It never comes back.

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.

I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

When the Beatles first came out, you had to go to a certain amount of trouble to have long hair. You just couldn't have it immediately. Anything you can just go out and get - like platform shoes - is not going to inspire people as much as something they have to go through a little bit of hell to have.

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.

We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.