I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.

Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

I just blow-dry my hair and put on mascara and lip gloss, and I'm ready to go. I really don't get long nails. They're so Edward Scissorhands.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

And more so now, since having a family - I don't seek out any other acceptance.

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.