The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

Older women have always been attracted to me.

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

I need to set the record straight for myself.

Anger only gets in the way.

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

What you're saying is often less important than what you're feeling when you're saying it.

I will never put anybody before my family because your family is your family.

As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.

In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.

The current days of the Internet will soon be over.

Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed