Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

I did get a degree in special education.

I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

I'm tired and I don't know what day it is.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.