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

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

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

When you write a song, a song has longevity.

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

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

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.

The songs in 'Wonderland' don't have a melodic life for me - I'm not a musical person - but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

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