One Christmas build-up tradition however has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'

It may be a cliche but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.

According to an ancient Sardinian legend the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

So we're considering doing a new Christmas album because there's been Christmas episodes since then and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.

Online there's no time. It's always Christmas.

Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

When I was 12 all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

When you have kids you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Tax cuts should be for life not just for Christmas.

On the whole I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean why are people afraid to say 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it yeah they can go do something else.

The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat and how I played with my kids and how addicted to Christmas time I am and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning you better see if you can locate that check.

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on on the inside everyone wants to dance.

The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in 'I can't think of anything to give you but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward I was like 'What were you thinking idiot?'

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.