Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
6 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
That's just a stressful way to live - saying, 'OK who's doing great, who's doing better than me?'. . . Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.
It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.
Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.
How can one call that a defeat? There is no such thing.
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.