Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

I enjoy the small things.

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.

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.

There are a lot of people -- and time does this -- who are going to be severely embarrassed for their bias and intolerance. And they're going to have to live with that; that's going to be their legacy. I refuse to have that as part of my legacy.

Dean Martin my favourite out of everyone because there is a grace that he brings. What he did seemed so effortless.

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 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.

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.

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

Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs.

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.

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.

I thought without a doubt I would be a fisherman.

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 can't sit and compare my trouble to Brian Wilson but I came from a blue-collar family of fishermen. Music was an escape and a way for me to dream of better things and a better place to be. Let's just say I was an insecure, scared kid.

I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

I see that I have been engaged to Emily Blunt without ever asking her. The big question I had was, do you think I would ask her to marry me through 'Hello' magazine? Would I do something like that? Would she allow that to happen? It is completely ridiculous.

I think I was annoyed going through the '90s just as a guy who loves music. There wasn't a lot of music for me. Everything was groove driven. We lost the plot with the melody. There's no more melody.

Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.

I'm not talking about just Donald Trump's politics -- it's what he's brought up. It's a real conversation. We're just people trying to fall in love as nations and human beings. We need therapy, man. The world does.

You can try to trick the people and come out wearing a fedora and a tuxedo but that's not me. I was born in the late '70s, I wear jeans. I don't hang out in casinos. The lifestyle isn't my thing. I don't drink martinis and I don't smoke cigars.

I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life.

I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a certain way with the triangle. But I'm not a jazz musician ... my band, they always joke, they always say that I'm a disposable, pop, jazz superstar.

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.

Perspective has allowed me to rekindle my love of music.

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.

As I look back, I understand what the record company was getting at. They were trying to market a record and make it as commercially acceptable as possible. It hurt me and my credibility with critics.

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.

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.

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.

Dean Martin had this really wonderful rich, authentic, distinct vocal style. His humour in movies and the self-deprecation and the coolness he had could overshadow what a marvellous vocalist in the Great American Songbook he is.

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

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.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor -- a very Canadian sense of humor.

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.

It's a beautiful day, and I can't stop myself from smiling!

I brought in producer Johan Carlsson Ariana Grande, One Direction, Flo Rida and asked, Can you make this better? And he did.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble.

I want to be around for a long time. I want this to be a career. I want to sing like Tony Bennett. I want to be an old man and I want to go through all the ups and downs and I wanna still love what I do.

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.

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.

My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it.

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.

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 have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.