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So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

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.

I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.

I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.