Unless you're really going to have a serious relationship, don't bring your kids into it. Don't show your child that people come and go.

When you believe in something and truly go after it with all you have, amazing things will happen.

I'm never hard on people just because they annoy me on the show. I'm not emotional when I'm professional. Do I think there are people on the show who need to go home sooner than they do? Yes. I do. but I'm there to be professional and to be a judge and to give them my advice and my help and I take my job really seriously.

When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave

When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.

Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition.