If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

I've never liked the idea you have to be a certain age to be a pop star. I like the idea that anybody can enter, anybody can compete.

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. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.

Women say hello and then put their hands down my trousers. I thought it was my hand they were supposed to shake.

I've learned to deal with stress much better now, things don't bother me in the way that they once used to.

If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her. ... I like her.

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.