Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title.

I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to.

I actually don't feel famous.

It would be Beyonce Knowles, because we are around the same age and I think she sings very, very well.

Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.

I'm trying to remain unfamous.

Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title.

An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.

Everything I do is music-related.

I have a good sense of direction.

I love music.

I play the piano and write music.

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

I am concerned about the plight of the working poor... If doctors are not paid for seeing those patients, doctors will not go to rural Alabama because you can't expect a doctor to go to rural Alabama and lose money.

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA.

My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn't know me.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning.

It's not what abilities you have that makes a difference it's what you do with these abilities that's paramount.

At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.

Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

If you talk to your body, it will listen.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Milosevic did not die in The Hague - he was killed in The Hague. But, he had managed to defend the national and state interests of Serbia and the Serb people, and everybody should be grateful to him for that.

We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation.

Seen through the eyes of a U.S. soldier, Afghanistan is a scary place.

I only wanted to help my people.