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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.

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.

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

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

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.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.