No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

Do I feel famous? I feel more famous than I did 10 years ago, absolutely.

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's next? What's next?' I like the equanimity that comes with my age. I don't have big highs, and I don't have big lows. Even if this job goes away tomorrow, the nonstop ambition is a thing of the past for me. I've mellowed

The thing about Christmas music is the recognizability. It's great.

I can still impress my family, yeah. In fact, I always text my family when I meet someone famous. I ran into Anna Faris and I texted my niece, and I said "Just hugged it out with Anna Faris," and she was like, "Oh my God! OMG! OMG!" She got a big kick out of it.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.