You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side they don't like you as much. I find too that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny and you never see the sorrow or the pain.
Yes my first memory of singing in general was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.