It is what it is, it is what you make it.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

It is what it is, it is what you make it.

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put a footprint - you know, they got the foot in the door, but I'm going to put my foot straight through the door.

The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt like it was an out of body experience.

As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.

I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

Give metal a chance!

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

Joy, has no cost.

The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we're doing, what we're thinking, and to tell stories.

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Me fail english? Thats unpossible.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

I have actively opposed every bailout, every rebate check, every so called 'stimulus.'

I'm kind of stupid.

When values disappear, the first people to suffer are women because people start losing their respect for women.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

I've taken a milk-art class; I can put a heart on top of the cappuccino. I'm very proud of that.

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It's about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.

I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.

It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure kids that get out there and fight. It's the insecure kids.

I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.

You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually.

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.