Dave Haywood Quotes

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

It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family.

I love Christmas. I love the music... I love everything about Christmas. I'm a big fan.

Some of my favorite records growing up were Christmas albums. The ones I liked best were the albums that you could listen to from start to finish. You could put them on while you're decorating the tree or driving around looking at Christmas lights.

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

I'd have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how much money my parents had or didn't have, we got completely spoiled rotten. There were always presents under the tree, and we always did special things, like hide elves around the house.

One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy.

I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet for them. If they weren't covering their lawns with twinkling lights, they'd be doing something that was really, really creepy.

I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.

'A Christmas Story' has become such a special part of the holiday season for so many families.

We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!

My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!

Fans talk to me about how 'Country Christmas' has become a holiday tradition for them and that they all watch to start their holiday season. To be a part of people's holiday traditions is a real joy.

You know what I love the smell of? Christmas trees and pine. I always have a pine candle even if it's not Christmas.

We're the house that's playing Christmas music by November 1.

At our house, we'd always open presents with our Christmas records playing. 'Little Drummer Boy' was one of my favorites when I was a kid because it was about a kid.

I've been wanting to do a Christmas song for forever.

It's not exactly calm at Christmas. It's a bit like the Simpsons appearing in a pasta advert - lots of bickering, crazy pets, and plenty of tomato sauce!

Christmas Queens' is a family effort!