• "My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas." - Kary Mullis Tweet
• "I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song." - Clint Black Tweet
• "The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received." - Whitley Strieber Tweet
• "Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me." - Ryan Adams Tweet
• "If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love." - Robbie Fowler Tweet
• "I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece." - Diane Kruger Tweet
• "The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year." - Johnny Vegas Tweet
• "The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin." - Jay Leno Tweet
• "When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs." - Tony Visconti Tweet
• "And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around." - Ashley Judd Tweet