Michael Buble

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.”

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

“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.”

“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 thought without a doubt I would be a fisherman.”

“Family is what matters. The health of my children is No.1. The relationship with my family, my wife, my faith - all of it is easily No. 1.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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