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

I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

Songwriters tell the truth.

I felt like I got more comfortable on "Idol" when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

I've never been fired in my life.

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