I will always appreciate 'American Idol,' and I never forget about where I come from.

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.

Food in Chicago is the best.

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.

If youve ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.