It's cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.

There's a lot of really talented people in Utah, people who would really make an effort to make the music the best that it could be and as emotional as it could be.

I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, 'OK, here are all the label people that you're gonna work with, this is the album you're gonna make and blah, blah, blah.' So it was a pretty fast process, but it's been cool.

If not music, I think it would be pretty cool to be an ear, nose and throat doctor.

I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing.