I used to have hair so long, my nickname was Pocahontas.

I always make a wish at 11:11, even if its something cheesy.

A lot of people who wanted to audition for Idol have asked me: “What should I do?” or “How to I prepare myself?” I always told them: “Just go in and believe in yourself.”

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

Do not let anything get in your way of chasing your dreams.

The best part of being signed by a major label was having the support of a big company behind me and the ability to meet new artists and producers.

Being hurt by someone you really cared about, it makes me want to make them regret ever hurting my heart. Best way of doing that? Success. Get ready for it.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

Even though it was a stressful time in my life, I have a lot of good memories from my Idol experience.

The thing that I did not like about being signed to a label was I unable to have control over what I wanted to do.

My experience working with a major label was not all bad, I was blessed to go through that experience, and I know what to do during the next time around.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.

I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

James Ibori gave me $15million as bribe in 2007

I'm happy with what I've achieved.

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.