I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.

Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

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