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I enjoy the small things.
I like my job but it's not who I am.
I truly thought I'd never come back to music.
I can't do something just because it's popular.
I thought without a doubt I would be a fisherman.
Perspective has allowed me to rekindle my love of music.
Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs
It's a beautiful day, and I can't stop myself from smiling!
My entire life has been inspired by how my family has made me feel.
As I've gotten older and the world has gotten far more complicated .
I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.
The success is worth nothing to me if I can't share it with the people I love.
I would rather have people be even cynical about me than to feed the negative vibe.
If [my son] had any pain in feeling that he couldn't express to me, that would hurt.
Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.
My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it.
Sandalwood is one of the ingredients in Tam Dao, the perfume that I love from Diptyque.
When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.
I think laughter and stimulating conversation are the things that truly make a romantic evening.
The money never mattered. I'm not kidding you. It hasn't really brought me any kind of happiness.
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor.
Who I am is a dad and a family guy. When I look in the mirror and talk to myself, that's what I want to reflect.
People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.
[Dean Martin] my favourite out of everyone because there is a grace that he brings. What he did seemed so effortless.
Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.
I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.
I brought in producer Johan Carlsson [Ariana Grande, One Direction, Flo Rida] and asked, "Can you make this better?" And he did.
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.
There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble.
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 always felt it was weird, that retro thing where guys showed up in zoot suits and tried to talk as if they were from some other time.
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.
I just don't want people to think I'm too sweet of a boy; and little miss angel boy, because I'm going to get caught doing somebody horrible.
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 empathy is romantic. I think humor is romantic. Kindness is romantic. I think those kind of gestures of caring and love are romantic.
I had this strange belief, perhaps naively, that somehow, if I kept working hard, and I kept doing it with integrity, that I would get my chance.
I think Elvis Presley is a crooner. Even people like Eddie Vedder, I hear him sing some things and I go "wow". Seal, that kind of nice voice, too.
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.
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.
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.
You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.
It's a bit shocking when you show up in Africa or you're in the middle of Spain and there are people that know the words and the young kids singing along.
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.
I'm fascinated by politics. I love watching everyone from Neil deGrasse Tyson to Lawrence Krauss to people like Richard Dawkins and Noam Chomsky on YouTube.
I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.
I believe [Dean Martin] is underestimated as a vocalist only because it seemed like what he was doing looked easy - but it isn't and it stands the test of time.
Someone asked me the other day, 'Do you get upset when people say you are the young Frank Sinatra?' It doesn't upset me. It is a huge compliment, but it is false.
A lot of artists talk about getting out of their comfort zones and being the most proud of their newest album. But it is true for me. I rethought a lot of what I do.
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.
I was three or four, and my mother would have a Bing Crosby record playing through the house. It was my introduction to jazz, harmonies, melodies, musicianship, and emotion.