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.

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.

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.

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

In my day everything wasn't so PC.

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

The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.

The divine inspiration comes from God.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion...

Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

My life is just like Breaking Bad except instead of a chemistry teacher I'm just a guy and instead of making meth I don't do much.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.