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I always try to give my songs as gifts.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

You know when I really realized like 'wow' what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album.