My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as a family, and I also call them out on things like getting impatient when they stand in line - because they hardly ever have to. But that's just the reality of what they were born into.

I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.

I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

Just because I’m single and don’t date a lot, that doesn’t make me a lesbian.

Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.

The fact that I get to do what I love and 14 years in, I'm still doing it - I don't know how anything could get better.

Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.