'To be fair to all, nobody from the show can tell a finalist whether a song choice is good or bad, no matter how much they want to know. Byrd remembers Clay Aiken: 'He'd say, 'Byrd, if this is a great song choice, blink your left eye.' ' -Debra Byrd (talking about American Idol)

'I always like the idea that you can turn on the radio and say, 'Oh, that's Clay Aiken. Oh, that's Barbra Streisand. Oh, that's Frank Sinatra, Oh, that's Tony …

'What a dear young man.'

'When I review the tape [of the show] the next day, there's lots of screaming and crying,'...'Then I recover the same way I do anytime I'm injured: ice, elevat…

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I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself h…

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