This is really just a rental home for me here on earth, my true home is up in Heaven, and my hope lies in that. I'm here to live a good life and get as many people as I can to go to Heaven with me

For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.

I was an Elvis freak. That's all I listened to growing up.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.