The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.

Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Everything's completely different, and it's been hard. Fortunately, I have a lot of wonderful people around me, and I think I'm handling things pretty well.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

I don't think I've had a rocky love life. I'm just trying to figure out what I want.

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.