I won because I was the people's favorite dancer, and that's what I work with these Idols on. There have been 1,000 singers before you that are as good or better than you, but you're not trying to be the best singer ever. You're trying to be the people's favorite singer.

Bobby Bones

Work Good You

I remember, when I was young, I had idols who inspired me to go for my dreams, and I just want to give the same back.

Ada Hegerberg

Dreams Young You

When artists die early, they become idols even more.

Agnes Varda

Art Tis T

When I was really little, I wanted to be a wrestler so I could be like the girls I looked up to. My brother then told me that 'You don't want to be like your idols; you want to grow up and be better than them.' To this day, that's the best piece of advice I've ever gotten.

AJ Lee

Your You Wrestler

I've been very lucky. I've written for most of my idols and the contemporaries.

Alan Zweibel

Written Very Ten

I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even if I'm not playing it that much. All my idols that I grew up liking always had a guitar on them, but they didn't play it - Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello. It's like having a partner with you.

Albert Hammond, Jr.

Art You Yin

It wasn't until 1999 when my idols Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly took home the women's World Cup trophy at the Rose Bowl in front of 40 million TV viewers that I remember thinking how rare it was to see women play sports on TV.

Alex Morgan

Women Sports Men

Playing in Milan for me meant being able to play alongside players who were idols to me as a kid. Playing alongside David Beckham - his long passes are perfect for me.

Alexandre Pato

Yin Who Were

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

Andra Day

Use Us T

It's cool for young guys to see what their idols are doing.

Andre Schurrle

Cool Young You

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

Andres Iniesta

Learning Watch Today

For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I've got so many: Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Reed. If they got 'Hunky Dory' and 'Citadel' offered to them, they would do completely different jobs on both of them.

Aneurin Barnard

Pet Would Welsh

I can put all the idols on my bed and sleep, I'm so fond of them.

Anushka Shetty

Them T Sleep

I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.

Art Alexakis

Young You Use

I grew up thinking Margaret Cho and Lucy Liu were my idols because that's it.

Awkwafina

Were Use Us

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Ayrton Senna

Work Pet Ten

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

B. B. King

Car Yourself Yours

Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly great actor.

Ben Falcone

Time Great Tim

We tend to think of our idols as kind of superheroes; maybe less so today, given that people have a tendency to overshare on social media, but when I was growing up, all you knew about these people was what they allowed you to see - which was them doing superhuman things, up on stage in an arena with all these people going crazy.

Ben Gibbard

Age You Wit

I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around.

Beth Ditto

Wing Win Well

I won because I was the people's favorite dancer, and that's what I work with these Idols on. There have been 1,000 singers before you that are as good or better than you, but you're not trying to be the best singer ever. You're trying to be the people's favorite singer.

Bobby Bones

Work Good You

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

Bobby Sherman

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.

Breckin Meyer

I love Frank Sinatra. He is one of my biggest all-time idols.

Brendon Urie

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

Brian Wilson

I think, for me, winning opens doors to all types of shapes and sizes and genres to come on the show and kill it. I'm probably the antithesis of what American Idols have been.

Caleb Johnson

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

Cam Newton

Rachel Bilson, Nicole Richie, Vanessa Hudgens... so many of my idols growing up were Bongo girls.

Camila Mendes

God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Chanakya

I've already played against some of my biggest idols.

Christian Pulisic

Growing up, Karuna Shinsho on CNN was one of my idols, so I wanted to become either an anchorwoman or an international lawyer.

Claudia Kim

People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.

Clayton M. Christensen

The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.

Clint Smith

I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure.

Coco Austin

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

Curtis Joseph

We grew up listening to so much hardcore: everything from the very early D.C. stuff - Teen Idols, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, SOA, Government Issue - to bands who weren't straight edge, like Negative Approach. I really feel they were one of the greatest punk bands ever.

Davey Havok

Bernard Hopkins is one of my idols.

David Haye

On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.

Dennis Haysbert

Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.

Dexter Holland

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

Dirk Nowitzki

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

Dita Von Teese

All my idols have been in the studio with me, because they wanted to be there.

DJ Premier

Shortly after I moved to Los Angeles, I was looking for work, and I happened to be invited to Ray's studio and sat in and played on a couple of his demos. I didn't charge him a dime for it. I was on cloud nine to be working in the same room as Ray Charles, one of my huge idols.

Don Felder

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Douglas Coupland

When you're 10, 11, 12, and you're watching your idols, you feel like you know them. I found more in common with these people when they talked in interviews than I did with my classmates.

Dove Cameron

I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.

Drake Bell

He was one of my childhood idols, and I hope I can get in the ring with him one day. I'd love to batter The Rock.

Drew McIntyre

As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.

Eli Roth

I think I would fan over Beyonce or Adele. Those are my two girl idols, definitely.

Ella Henderson

I didn't really have idols growing up, but some of my friends were huge fangirls.

Ella Purnell

Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.

Ellen G. White