That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.

And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.

The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

In my day everything wasn't so PC.

There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.

Because lies outpace the truth, sooner or later you will trip up on your own tongue.

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive.

If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?