“On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I s...” — Jessica Sanchez Quote

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Music has always been a huge part of my life.

I'm playing a powerhouse singer who is big competition, but she's also really down to earth and sweet. But the whole sweet thing goes away when she's in competition mode. I love the show, so I'm very excited to be a part of it. I'm going to kill it on 'Glee!'

I personally love J.Lo because she's a fashion icon and I love her music.

Every single year, I tell myself I am going to drive. It never happens. I don't know how to drive. I am already 20. This needs to happen.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's also breakbeats, R&B, the big ballads. It's that whole era infused with very modern sounds.

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

Kenny Chesney's music cuts. He gets into those massive ballads like 'There Goes My Life' and 'The Good Stuff' and things like that that just crush you, and delivers them so well. Some of that you can't really put your finger on; it's just magic.