Singing Contest Quotes

If Simon Cowell asked me, of course I would love to do 'X Factor.'

I'm loving 'X Factor,' I'm having the most fun. I love the idea and I love the celebrities.

I have a bit of a problem with 'American Idol.' Forgive me, but it's difficult for me to watch. I can't help but think of people being exploited. On the other hand, I'm really enjoying 'Glee.'

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

Strictly?' That's for older people, I watch 'X Factor.'

'American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS's 'Survivor' and other shows that imitate it, the 'American Idol' contestants, of course, sing.

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.

Winning 'American Idol' is awesome.

Eurovision is a wonderfully joyous and unique event.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type program, a radio show called 'Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.' The winning group on the evening of September 8, 1935, was called the Hoboken Four, and their spokesman was Frank Sinatra, then aged 19.

Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

The X Factor' is nothing without Louis Walsh.

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life.

I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

I grew up watching 'American Idol.'

I didn't even want to sing, honestly. I started thinking about how long the journey was, how far all of us had come - me and Jessica Sanchez, Hollie Cavanagh and Josh Ledet and everybody. It's insane, man. It's not as easy as you think.

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

I watched 'Eurovision.' And I actually like the show. I like wind machines. I like the whole glimmer-glamour thing. That's 'Eurovision.' We love to hate it.

To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.

'American Idol' is a juggernaut... Because of my 'American Idol' win, I am able to do the thing that I love most, which is to be an entertainer.

I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

First time I ever sang was in a contest in Louisiana when I was 9. And I won yodeling.

But shows like 'The X Factor' are a great showcase but people are not taking it for real music.