“One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care h...” — George Benson Quote

One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find that if my audience is very young, and they want to hear very young songs, my show will be dominated by that. But there'll be some ballads here and there and some swing tunes.

One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.

I haven't done anything with Chick Corea. He had a group called Return to Forever, and everyone in the group became a superstar. I would really like to work with him.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.

I was doing gigs at 16, belting out all the big ballads like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.

I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.

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