I was a teen idol in Latin America.
My father is my best friend. He’s my idol and my boss. We work side by side and spend every weekend together.
The world is so caught up in the ‘American Idol’ idealistic sort of tendency in regards to just thinking that this whole thing is what everybody wants, but it doesn’t help you make a better record.
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn’t have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
I’ve been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenager after I did ‘Australian Idol.’ I had a little tummy, and I was always really quite conscious of that.
George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.
While I do not believe in idol worship, I believe in energy.
I have watched every single season of ‘American Idol’ since the beginning, when Ryan Seacrest co-hosted with Brian Dunkleman. Brian who? Exactly.
These days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
Serena Williams is my sports idol.
Didier was always an idol.
In the U.S., no one minds who I am, even if they saw me in ‘Idol.’ If I’m not doing any shows, my friends and I can just drive around the neighborhood and go to bars at night and chill till four in the morning.
A lot of people make hay about ‘American Idol’s ratings and ‘Empire.’
‘Idol’ was more of a competition, and that was more of a platform that I wanted to get a hold of and get on top of. And I finally got that opportunity, and now it’s more like, I just gotta show and prove myself to everybody that I’m not just the ‘balladeer.’
I don’t mind if people say I was on ‘American Idol,’ because I was, and that is a part of my past, and I’m super proud of it, but I don’t want that to be all there is to me.
I’ve always loved R&B. That love seemed to start in church. But then I saw Carrie Underwood on American Idol, and I fell in love with country. Heck, I loved the hair bands of the ’80s too, so I have always loved country and rock ‘n’ roll.
I’m not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on ‘American Idol.’
I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?
I created ‘America’s Next Top Model’ one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be ‘American Idol’ meets ‘Ford Supermodel of the Year’ meets ‘The Real World.’
My father is my idol. He supports me all the time. He has given me the way to life.
My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.
Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn’t think I could carry his shoes back then.
‘Hum-Tum’ is my tribute to Kishor Kumar as he is my idol.
I always paid attention to Lil Wayne – close attention. He’s my idol. He’s still my idol.
If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one’s work.
I think a lot of the things I do are because I want to be the idol or the role model that I never had when I was a kid.
Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.
I wasn’t on ‘Idol’ for very long, but I know I was pretty polarizing during my run.
With ‘American Idol,’ they’re giving you a pass to get launched on, and it’s up to you what you do with it.
I really do think that getting the golden ticket for ‘American Idol,’ it’s just the start of something really great.
‘The Voice’ has lots of singers who fit the ‘Idol’ mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.
Kristin Chenoweth had been my personal idol since I was, like, 6 or 7.
I really wanna do a Spanish album. I have that Latin culture background. It’s a part of me. I’m not the best Spanish speaker, but I have a longing to connect with that. I just think how supportive the Latin community has been, even during ‘Idol.’ I’d like to give back with something like that.
If I have a name out there from this thing called ‘American Idol,’ I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t use it for good. That’s the way the world should work.
I’ve never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I’ve got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of ‘American Idol,’ we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don’t believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make ‘American Idol ‘a better show.
Since I came an adult – for more than 45 years – Marcus Aurelius has been my great idol.
I personally have a silver idol of Lord Ganesh that I reuse every year. Don’t measure your devotion with the size of the idol.
Before I won ‘American Idol,’ I’d never been in a professional studio at all. I’m getting more used to it. I’m really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It’s easier than singing in front of 2.
Players like Didier Drogba, going to watch him play and seeing him off the pitch as well, I got to see how he was with the players and the youngsters. Growing up, he was a good idol. He’s a bubbly, funny character. He likes to make people feel welcome. You need those kind of people, wherever you are.
People – I hate to use the word ‘fans’ – are very respectful. It’s not like I’m some pop idol or big movie star. I’m very approachable, and I love the people who enjoy me, because they react like they’ve run into a friend. Usually, it’s like, ‘Hey, Wanda! How ya’ doing?’
Have you seen ‘American Idol’ lately? I’m sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call ‘Rock n’ Roll.’
An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people’s lives through music.
My idol has always been Thierry Henry.
I don’t have a problem with ‘Idol’ or ‘X Factor,’ I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and ‘Idol hit,’ I just didn’t watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of ‘Idol,’ this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
I was the first judge in the ‘Indian Idol’ format. The biggest risk when you adapt a format from a country in the West is how to make it your own, so I remember at the press conference for Indian ‘X Factor,’ the press would ask, ‘Who is Simon Cowell?’ And I said ‘Why don’t you ask Simon Cowell, ‘Who is Sonu Nigam?’
It’s a dream come true for me to be an idol for those kids. One little moment from my life that I spend with that kid, he might remember that for the rest of his life, that he met me that day when he was 10 years old.
At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because ‘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 didn’t want to be the typical teen idol. I didn’t want to be Leif Garrett. I didn’t want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.
Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.
The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit – you know how ‘American Idol’ seems to appeal to every human being on the planet? Doing that in comedy nowadays is very, very hard.
My father is my idol, and I have grown up watching his films. He is my biggest influence and inspiration. I have learnt a lot from him, and I am who I am because of him. I’m extremely grateful to him for that.
An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.
We’ve taken Japan’s ‘idol’ music genre of pretty girls singing and dancing and added ‘kawaii metal,’ which is totally new.
Roberto Carlos has always been my idol, even before I actually met him.
It was a pleasure to work with everybody at ‘American Idol’ and to be able to be part of the ‘Idol’ family.
I think I can sing, but that does not mean I can actually sing. I fear that I’m like one of those ‘American Idol’ contestants who truly believe they are good and are actually dreadful.
My role model, my idol, was Francois Truffaut.
I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
