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!

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

If you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

A football team is a like a beautiful woman when you do not tell her she forgets she is beautiful.

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

Emmanuel Lewis was amazing to work with. I'll love that guy to the end of time.

Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.

My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.'

Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.

Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

Families mean workbut they are our great workand we are not afraid of work.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Its a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.