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.

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

It's all about love. We're either in love, dreaming about love, recovering from it, wishing for it or reflecting on it. That's what this record [Call Me Irresponsible] is about.

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

As I've gotten older and the world has gotten far more complicated .

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

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I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Know what you're talking about.

I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.

All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered, and one not answered how or when we would like it to be.

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.