Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every "Idol" winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

I looked a little pasty. But hey, at least I didn't wet myself!

When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

I've never been fired in my life.

Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with "Idol," it has got me past so much of that.

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.