David Archuleta

David: Music is such a powerful thing because it allows you to communicate with other people. To do that with so many people makes you feel really good.

(on an interview with Larry King) David: Syesha [Mercado] really is an amazing vocalist, and performer, and you know, so talented and it's so weird when she does one of the most unbelievable performances I've ever heard in my life and the judges are like, uh I don't know, and I'm like, Ok what is wrong with you, what's the problem, did you not just hear that? (laughs)

David: It's always fun to have Carly [Smithson] and David Cook, and Michael Johns was a lot of fun to have around, it's sad he gone, and Ramiele [Malubay]. But, you know, it's just fun to have those big jokers. Carly and Cook are just really funny people. And then you have like Syesha who is really weird and crazy and, it's fun, they just make me laugh so hard I cry all the time.