David Cook Quotes

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

If you wanna know the truth, you make or break my day. If you wanna know the truth, I wouldn't have it any other way.

It's amazing what a haircut and forgetting to shave will do.

I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

I'd always wanted to grow my hair out. And now looking back on those photos I understand why I probably shouldn't have.

Life has a strange way of working itself out

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.

The further you go on the show, the larger the budget gets. But in the beginning they were just like, "Here's a hundred bucks in L.A. Good luck."

I'm competitive to a fault, so of course every week I'm just like, "I want to win, I want to do great."

It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.

I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.

I live for Tuesdays, and die by Wednesdays.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

Do you remember a time when men were men? When they would do anything for love, for their friends or for their country?'No, I don't, but at least I would love to read about those men!

Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong.