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My role is to play out the full overs.

For the past 32 years, I’ve done nothing outside the entertainment business. I’ve had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

If I’m inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

American Idol has taken over my whole life.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.