I love every kind of music.

Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!

It's totally weird to see myself on a billboard!

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

I'm a really emotional person so I cry for everything.

I'm a huge shoe person, and I have lots of shoes.

I wear a lot of black, but not in the goth way, I just really love black. I'll never be in pink or purples.

I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

I like things in my hair - big feather pieces.

Out of the fire, passion is born.

If He strips us of all our own resources, we just might learn to lean on Him. And to start praying again.

Life is like a boxing match, it seems, society has not been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of crime

Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn't want it to see.

I like progress but I hate change.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

In the fourth grade, I learned how to fake walking into a door. You know, you hit it with your hand and snap your head back. The girls loved it.