We're putting on a show, and if I'm dancing and having fun, you can take a shot of the crowd, and they've got smiles glued to their faces.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

I've been told throughout my career that I have good instincts, and the idea of discovery and development in terms of a new artist is so exciting to me. Being only 25 and in a position where I might be able to grant opportunities is really cool.

All our fans are always very loud, especially Scousers.

In week one of the 'X Factor,' just to be a little bit quirky, I decided to say that I like girls who eat carrots. Ever since I've had lots and lots and lots of carrots.

Those sound like the three best answers I've ever heard on this show even though it's the first ever of this show!

I don't know if we'll ever get used to the attention from the fans.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

"The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow."

I love the beginnings of artists when all they've got is raw talent and nothing else.

To succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Every artists wants to be applauded

"Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story."

"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong."

"Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan."

"An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be."

"The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone."

"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site."

"When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle."

"We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun."