best decision. |
I don't think so. He [Prince] did not want to talk with the kids and did not have the time. |
I need boy dancers to be strong, masculine! |
I take everything like that with a pinch of salt. I've been in the business too long. I truly don't know. I know Prince had a party last night (after the Golden Globes) and I believe Paula might have been there. |
I think there's a lot of church-going [in the South] where they literally learn their craft and they're singing there every single week and [perfecting] the performance that goes with that. And I think there's a lot of soul there. In truth, though, we're just shocked by it to a certain degree. |
I've never heard kids blame other kids on stage to their faces before, and that has occurred this season. I have never heard people quit on stage in front of everybody and give the judges a mouthful, and say 'I'm quitting the show because of what you have said or what you have done,' and that has occurred... I have never seen people willing to s*** on other people as much as this crowd. |
I've never heard kids blame other kids to their faces on-stage. I've never heard people give the judges a mouthful and say 'I'm quitting the show.' Everybody has more attitude this season. I've never seen people as willing to (be harsh to) others as this crowd. Before, we've said to them 'You want to win. You want to get rid of other people' and they've said 'No, we all love each other.' Well, not this crowd... Thank God there weren't any sharp instruments. |
If we wanted to, say, clear a song by the Eagles, we would have to ask the publisher, the person who holds the rights, the songwriter and each one of the Eagles. And if one of them says no, we can't sing the song. |
Once they are in the top 24, they are here [in Hollywood] to stay. |
Pop music was invented in America, but the way the radio stations have gone for one type of music these days, it's so disparate now, it's very difficult for kids to get an overall feel of American music. |
Some very, very interesting things happen. |
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. |
The success of William Hung was based on his honesty. He really thought he was good and could get better. We try to weed out the people who are just trying to be bad. |
The three of them have wonderful chemistry. |
The winner has to appeal to all of America, not just country fans or rock fans or whatever. The sad thing for me is somebody like Ruben who didn't pigeonhole himself on 'Idol' — he did sing 'Imagine' and a Bee Gees [song] — and then the record label pigeonholed him. |