If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something.

Because I came in second place, it makes me want to work harder

She's very active. My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a huge, huge part of my career and my life.

I have a brother who has been overseas for two tours. I've been very fortunate that he has come home safely. Whether or not you support the war, always support our soldiers.

I have the easiest job in the world! It's an excuse to get up there, goof around and have fun.

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10.

At school my nickname is the National Anthem girl.

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

I've been doing this sort of thing my entire life. It's my love, it's my passion, it's what I do day in and day out. I eat, sleep, and breathe music and singing.

My mom did a good job exposing me to different types of music.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

My mind told me he most have had a weapon

A simple solution to a problem could be as complex as a problem to a simple solution.

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.

When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

I'm the worst person to tell anybody how to date.

I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.