I've been grinding at music for over a decade now. Since I was 18, I decided that this is what I wanted to do. It's not an easy thing. When you start getting 25, 26, people are like, 'Oh you're a musician huh? That's what you're gonna do? When are you going to get a real job?' I never gave up.

There will never be another 'American Idol,' which produced so many credible superstars over the years. It was a phenomenon in pop culture. It changed music.

The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'

I've been a legitimate fan of Keith Urban's for a long time and have been to a bunch of his concerts.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

It just worries me that if we start trying to erase history that we can learn from, where does that end? Do you start taking away books people find offensive? It's just a path that seems very dangerous to me in this country.

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.