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

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

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

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.

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 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.

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

A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.