American Idol

Simon (to Jared): I don't think anyone's going to be waking up tomorrow morning going 'What an incredible vocal performance!'

Simon (to Chris Sligh): I kind of felt like I was at some kind of weird student gig.

Simon (to Sanjaya): The irony was the most-used line in that song was 'I don't want to bore you with this' and it was without question the most dreary performance we've had all week. How long was that, a minute and a half? Sounded like an hour.

Simon (to Blake): You are the first person who's come out tonight and actually sounded like someone in 2007. Everything else could have been 20-30 years ago.

Simon (to Paul): I would suggest you put your shoes on next week. It's too much, always not wearing shoes, or whatever. It's a singing competition.

Simon (to Sundance): Tonight you were like Dad at a wedding.

Chris Sligh : Sitting in that room with 10-15 thousand other people in Birmingham was pretty crazy, especially because we had to sing "Sweet Home Alabama" about 37 times, I didn't like the song to begin with, but now, if I ever hear it again I'll probably go post.