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

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.

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.

a soldier's mind is made of rock

Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?

I know when something ain't right, and I know exactly what I will or won't tolerate.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

Aeriel felt her heart grow troubled. "I know," she said. "I know that he is evil, but his beauty unmakes me. Every time he looks at me, I die.

Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.