Darci Lynne Farmer

I can't remember if I got recognized at Disneyland. I probably did a couple of times as well, but I can't remember. ”

I was on 'AGT,' and I was like, 'Well, face it Darci, you are just going to probably get out on the first live round.' ”

I do a lot of vocal exercises and drink hot tea, which I hate. ”

We are a very faithful family, and that's very important. ”

I got to go to Hawaii with my family. That was really, really fun. ”

It just means so much to me that America voted for me, and I get to see all my friends and family supporting me and crying with me. ”

One time, it was really funny, I was going on stage... and they were like, 'Oh, we didn't mic the puppet! Mic the puppet!' So, that's how I know that sometimes I do a very good job, because they think that the puppet is actually, like, real. ”

It's so God-given - my talent - because it took so very little time to get it down to where I was able to perform. ”

A little before my 10th birthday, I was like, 'Can I please have a puppet, Mom and Dad?' They were like, 'No. You are a singer, not a ventriloquist. You have three brothers, and you're in gymnastics. There's no way we have time for this.' ”

I actually did a project with my puppet one time in fourth grade. I made up a song that went with the rhythm to a song I do now. And I had to make up a song about a penguin and research and put information in the song about a penguin. And I sang it with my duck, because I didn't have a penguin puppet, but close enough. ”