Darci Lynne Farmer

“I would love to get a pug. A puppy, a baby pug - I just want one so bad.”

“I just say go for it and be yourself, even if you're scared or nervous, because you'll never know what happens if you don't try.”

“Even though I'm in this big, crazy business, I'm still just myself. I still celebrate Christmas; I still live at home.”

“Being on 'America's Got Talent' has really helped me expand my self-confidence on the stage and anywhere - I'm more comfortable, and it's just really helped, and I'm glad about that.”

“I love singing - singing was basically kind of my passion before ventriloquism.”

“First, I am definitely going to give some money to my mission program at church, and then I have to get my mom a dishwasher.”

“I do a lot of vocal exercises and drink hot tea, which I hate.”

“I fangirl when I see someone famous wish me congratulations.”

“It's a little crazy. Last year, I was in seventh grade, and we were the babies at the school - 'cause my middle school's eighth grade and seventh grade - and now I'm eighth grade, and all these new students have come in, and they're all like, 'Oh my gosh! Darci Lynne!'”

“I guess just being more known is the biggest change, getting noticed in public and having a lot of followers on Instagram and things like that. Just a crazy new life.”

“I'm a person who hates practicing. It's my arch-nemesis, but it helps.”

“GE Appliances has agreed to give my mom a whole kitchen's worth of new appliances and a washer and dryer, and all I need to do is shout them out.”

“It's so God-given - my talent - because it took so very little time to get it down to where I was able to perform.”

“All of my puppets have their own personalities, their own background, and they enjoy what they do. How they say things, sing things, how they talk. I kind of created them out of my own personality. They are all me.”

“Petunia relates to me more than any other. She was shy at first, but she's definitely come out of her shell, I can tell you that. Petunia is like this small little rabbit, but her big huge voice comes out of her little body.”

“Oklahoma is my home. It's definitely slower paced than California.”

“I wouldn't have the experience or the confidence to go on 'AGT' without being on 'Little Big Shots' because doing 'Little Big Shots' was really fun, but it was also really good practice for my appearance on 'AGT,' and it was just a great, awesome experience that I will remember always.”

“'Stranger Things' is the best TV show ever made, so I love watching that.”

“I want to meet Jimmy Fallon. I want to meet Kristin Chenoweth, and I want to meet Ryan Gosling.”

“It just means so much to me that America voted for me, and I get to see all my friends and family supporting me and crying with me.”