Scotty McCreery

“I love singin' in the car, it just makes me feel good.”

“When you're the opener, you're the guy getting the crowd warmed up. But when you're the headliner, you're the main dude. People come to see you, and you have to deliver. It's a cool position to be in.”

“I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.”

“The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.”

“You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it.”

“For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.”

“I don't want to put anyone down, but you won't see any twerking from me.”

“I was watching the show last year and it didn't even cross my mind that this could even happen.”

“I'm in college at North Carolina State University. I'm about to start my sophomore year and have an apartment on campus with three buddies I've grown up with. I get to be normal when I'm there, and then I tour Thursday through Sunday.”

“I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff.”

“I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13' written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.”

“When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal.”

“I gotta get a truck.”

“When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support.”

“If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.”

“It's so surreal being here.”

“It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.”

“I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.”

“Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never met, you're pretty much going in and taking off your pants in front of strangers, so it's a really weird feeling.”

“Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.”