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" I actually own works of art I've always wanted to own - I collect photographs by the late William Claxton. I met him in L.A.; later, he agreed to shoot the cover for my album 'Call Me Irresponsible' for free. I was so fat at the time, and he made me look as good as I possibly could. "

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" When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up. "

Michael Buble

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I Am

Growing

" I truly thought I'd never come back to music. "

" I love Christmas. I'm really sentimental about it. My parents made it awesome for us, and we were allowed to be kids for a long time. "

" I enjoy the small things. "

" It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am. "

" I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way. "

" This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it. "

" The fame is the downside. I can't think of many positive things about it - except that when I go to parties, I don't have to stand there like a lemon. "

" A lot changed the moment I had kids; I had no idea of the perspective it would give me. It made making the right decisions a lot easier. "

Michael Buble

Perspective

Moment

" Sandalwood is one of the ingredients in Tam Dao, the perfume that I love from Diptyque. "

" I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something. "

" The greatest records in the world were made without going to Auto-tune or Pro Tools, or having some click track. If they could do it, why can't we? Something's been lost in music. It's all been over-produced, squashed down, totally compressed. "

" Record companies worrying more about market share than developing artists - I hear there was a time when if your first record didn't sell 8m copies, you were still given a chance to grow as a songwriter. "

Michael Buble

Time

You

" Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy. "

" Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did. "

" Perspective has allowed me to rekindle my love of music. "

Michael Buble

Perspective

Music

" People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life. "

" I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all. "

" My entire life has been inspired by how my family has made me feel. "

" I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's more important for me, honestly, that the guy who gets dragged to the show, you know, looks at his wife and says, thank you, that was great and tells his buddies. "

" I think laughter and stimulating conversation are the things that truly make a romantic evening. "

" I can't do something just because it's popular. "

" When pop and rock were taking over from jazz, and Sinatra was covering a Beatles song, it was all very new. I get to come at it from a different direction. "

" Having two boys of my own who I love more than I'll ever love myself, I can't tell you how crushing it would be if they couldn't feel that they could tell their father that they were gay - or different in any way. "

" The success is worth nothing to me if I can't share it with the people I love. "

Michael Buble

Nothing

People

" I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself. "

" Other artists, they write 13 songs, and hopefully one or two of them are successful singles. And the other 11, for the most part, are filler. "

" I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk. "

" I think empathy is romantic. I think humor is romantic. Kindness is romantic. I think those kind of gestures of caring and love are romantic. "

" The money never mattered. I'm not kidding you. It hasn't really brought me any kind of happiness. "