It was a pleasure to work with everybody at 'American Idol' and to be able to be part of the 'Idol' family.
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.
I'm covering the worst president in American history.
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.
In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
