I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show.

I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die

Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

No, what I am doing is kind by telling people who are useless, "Do something that you're good at".