I'm always in bare feet.
My parents were into The Mills Brothers, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughn, and all those people sung the most wonderful songs - and even when I got into rock 'n' roll, that stayed with me.
I remember when I was doing my first Christmas album, I thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice to find new Christmas songs?' Then I went, 'Are you crazy?' When I decorate my tree I don't want new Christmas songs, I want to hear all the familiar songs!
I devoured everything on the radio, I felt like I knew music.
There was a time when using TV to sell albums was frowned upon.
I do duets with folks like Randy Goodman, Aaron Neville, Bryan Adams, people like that.
Our television set was in the bedroom. I can picture my mother fast asleep, exhausted from driving my brothers around. I can picture the Maple Leafs playing the Canadiens. One or the other would always be on the CBC on Saturday night.
I am a rabid Maple Leaf fan.
People want new faces. And I don't blame them. It's just getting difficult for us oldsters to get anyone to take notice.
We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.
I'm originally from Nova Scotia.
Suddenly, I was in a category with Barbara Striesand, Olivia Newton John, Donna Summer, Carley Simon - it was kind of neat for me.
Baseball was popular in the summer, but hockey was big most of the time. With five brothers, you never escaped it. We had an indoor rink in our town, and all the boys would play on it right through high school.
Nelly Furtado has the right idea in reinventing herself.
