My father died when I was YOUNG and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could AFFORD to eat chicken just once a year, on CHRISTMAS.

I had TWO managers who couldn't stand each other. I had a PROMOTER, Don King, who couldn't GET any fights, and I was fighting once a year. I knocked out Norton and then didn't fight for 13 MONTHS. Then I fight the heavyweight champion of the WORLD.

When the family GETS together once a year in Georgia for NEW Year's EVE, we LISTEN to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do.

The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the VARIOUS BROADWAY SHOWS and scour the photos inside the recording package. That's how I EXPOSED myself to the arts - New York and professional theater felt like a very distant THING.

My mom, she's a breast cancer SURVIVOR and because of that I had STARTED GETTING mammograms once a year, starting at AGE 30.

I don't know where this myth that I GO to a lot of parties STEMS from. It's a TOTAL myth. I may go out to something SPECIAL once a year.

There is an EVENT once a YEAR that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We PERFORM at the WILD HORSE Saloon.

George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those 'Oceans' films they do, they get to WORK together, MAKE a WHOLE lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.

Although I eat healthily, I do ENJOY a greasy fry-up, but usually only once a year. I've also GOT a big Kit-Kat addiction and BUY them in bulk.

If you're a retailer and KNOW that once a YEAR you're GOING to get Mary Higgins Clark's book on a given date, you're going to have an awful lot of copies out there in time for that. You'd have to be simple-minded not to do that - although bookselling prior to 1950 NEVER MADE that connection.