My favourite time of year is two weeks before Christmas when everybody's up for it - you're having lunches with people, drinking Cosmopolitans, and getting ready for something exciting!
If you go to a Christmas concert, you take your wife on a nice evening, people are dressed up a little bit more, and it's definitely a sit-down event.
Tinsel on our Christmas trees is a Hart family staple started by my grandmother, Helen Hart.
At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos.
Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
I'm from Philadelphia, and I go to Philly a bunch throughout the holidays, which is my only time to see my family, so we get pretty festive around that time of year. It's also the only time I have vacation.
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.
Of all the quirky, inexplicable, reindeer-embellished holiday traditions out there, making your own Yule log might take the cake.
Christmas is the time for celebration, so I'm not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.
The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.
Here's To Christmas' is something I'm really proud of and I think it stands up as something fun, but something that doesn't sound half bad too - an album to get everyone into the swing of Christmas!
I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
I don't do costumes, I don't do sh_t like that. I love Halloween as a concept, but do I actually go out and do things? No. Trick or treating? Pain in the ass. Hate answering the door all night long. I do love fall, which is bad because I live in Los Angeles.
I don't think I've ever gotten to the point where I sent out Christmas cards! But if I did, they would have to feature my pets, that's for sure.
My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters.
I'm a huge holiday person. I love having parties and giving gifts.
One of the best parts of the holiday season is spending time with the special people in your life.
Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit.
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.
Why do all our friends and relatives destroy the summer for us? Why can't they get married in February?
