I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

I've always treated the music business as a business.

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

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

If I had to say who is the number-one most powerful figure is in reality TV, it's very easy. It is the general public. They're the only people who have power now.

Well, it's basically the viewers who determine it. We - well, basically the producers and myself chose the people we felt had the best reaction, you know, through the press, the Internet, the people we thought deserved a second chance. And they've chosen a winner, I believe.