Everything's completely different, and it's been hard. Fortunately, I have a lot of wonderful people around me, and I think I'm handling things pretty well.


I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids.


I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.


I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off-I figure I'd better get used to it.


It's been tough sometimes because I miss my family, but I talk to them every night. They're always going to be there for me.


Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate.


So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.


There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.


There's not ever much of anything going on in my head.


This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better.

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from-Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.