I don't compose rap songs or party numbers. I only compose folk.
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.
Back in the Eighties, I used to write ballads on my acoustic guitar, so it seems very natural to me to go back to a little singing.
My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.
I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.
I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads and more intimacy between me and the listener because sometimes when you're in a group you don't have space to air out your dirty laundry.
When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.
I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.
I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.
My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's also breakbeats, R&B, the big ballads. It's that whole era infused with very modern sounds.
I'm a really new artist here. I would say that my style is an artist who can dance and sing. That's why my album is really upbeat. Maybe we will try slowly to do ballads or middle tempo songs.
Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
The storytelling in country music is so powerful.
I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from South America. All those tunes - the guitar concerto on Sketches Of Spain. All those are Spanish melodies. Some of them we made up ourselves.
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.
When I listen to Michael Buble, it's exciting; it's inspiring. I feel the same way with Michael Feinstein or Ryan Adams.
I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.
My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets.
I started singing before I started talking. And that's the God's honest truth. I think it was something that I've always loved to do, even if I wasn't good at it. I just loved ballads.
I don't like party music. I like emotional music.
I'm a romantic singer. That's my nook, my motif.
I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.
