I don't like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having a good time, they're excited and enjoying the process, then I think it's wrong to discriminate.

My heart, my lungs, my blood - they've all been checked. I remember one of the doctors almost being disappointed when he showed me the results because he couldn't wait to tell me what smoking was doing to me. But there was nothing there.

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.

You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

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.