“My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!”

“For me, hearing my voice is sometimes a little nauseating, especially at Christmas.”

“My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.”

“I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been mea...”

“My parents were over the moon when I had some success with Christmas songs because that was the time of the year that meant so much to them. They were able to see their loved ones, and it was great...”

“I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.”

“This world has need of song and sword.”

“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”

“I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, ...”

“Not everyone may not think the way you do.”

“I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.”

“To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.”

“I never speak in silence.”

“Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.”

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”