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"You can try to trick the people and me come out
wearing a fedora and a tuxedo but that's not me.
I was born in the late '70s, I wear jeans.
I don't hang out in casinos. The lifestyle isn't my thing.
I don't drink martinis and I don't smoke cigars."

"I feel like I'm going to open my eyes, and this will all have been a dream..."

"I'm a walking oyster!"

"I'm a singer, I don't need my butt!" (after falling down, playing hockey)

"Happiness in life doesn't come from achieving your goals,
but from dreaming of your potential, of looking forward to something."

"At the very least, fame means that you'll always get somebody wanting to talk to you at a party."

... Questions by SmoothJazzNow.com ...

What was your most exciting brush with another celebrity?
"The best was hangin' out with Tom Hanks, having a great conversation
and having Don Rickles walk over and saying "Hey Michael, you're
listening to this meathead? He talks to beachballs!!" And then walked away.
Tom Hanks was such a nice guy and Rickles, he's so very quick."

What is your favorite album of all times?
" The Duets" with Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong."

What's the craziest thing you have ever done?
"Becoming a singer and getting into the entertainment business!"

What was your childhood like?
"Unbelievably happy and sheltered.
I lived in a really great neighborhood with great kids in Vancouver.
When we got into high school, other kids were already smoking
and we had never even seen cigarettes. So, we were sheltered."

What was your best experience as a musician?
"Singing Karaoke with my grandpa."

Ever had a crush on a celebrity when you were a kid?
"Gosh, almost every woman I have seen naked in movies!
Seriously, I would have to say Jennifer Love-Hewitt.
I have had a crush on her forever."

What's you biggest pet peeve?
"The War with Iraq,
not that it was fought just the actual feeling for the kids out there."

Tell us about your Christmas?
"To me it's simply a great time of the year for family closeness."

Where do you want to be in 20 years?
"Alive. Honestly, I would like to be thirty! Okay, let's try that again.
I would like to be a retired family man with three kids and a beautiful wife
and I want to be sitting at the Vancouver Canucks seventh Stanley Cup
win in a row and I want grandpa to still be there."

He can croon like Harry Connick Jr. and he's easy on the eyes to boot!
New young talent graced the stage to sing his cover of George Michael's "Kissing a Fool".
He had Sharon and the audience swooning in their seats.
- The Sharon Osborne Show, Monday, September 22, 2003 Show recap

Is this 25-year-old singer the next Harry Connick Jr.?
Heck, maybe even the next Frank Sinatra?
- Jeannie Williams, USA Today

His show is infectious, fun. Part swooning crooner, part Rat Pack at the Sands.
- Jim Gordon, The Voice

Clearly, the guy has the soul of a performer.
- Vit Wagner, Toronto Star

"He has the ability to be one of life's legends...
graceful.... grateful, respectful and sophisticated,"
- Out & About magazine

"I watched him rehearse just the other day (in Los Angeles), he's got a great talent.
I think he's going to be a huge, monster star."
- Engelbert Humperdink

"Of all the singers I've heard come along in the last six or seven years,
I've only heard one truly good singer, Michael Bublé.
He's calm on stage, knows how to carry himself.
Girls love him just like they loved Frank Sinatra.
(Bublé) learned how to do it right. In Europe, he's got everybody going nuts. But he's it.
A majority of artists, they might have a big Grammy but they don't sound right,
not in the tradition of great American music."
- Tony Bennett

"He never tried to be cool and that made him totally hot."
- J.D. Considine, Globe & Mail