For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

Older women have always been attracted to me.

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.

I need to set the record straight for myself.

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

Create your best life with your consciously chosen thoughts, words, and actions.

You don’t hear what I hear.

How could the eagle-eyed politicians of The Hague, who specialized in pointing out the tiniest specks in other people’s eyes, overlook someone riding a racist coach in their own neighborhood?

Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.