This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

- Lee DeWyze

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

- Lee DeWyze

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

- Lee DeWyze

I'm not interested in just putting out one hit.

- Lee DeWyze

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

- Lee DeWyze

Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.

- Lee DeWyze

My music comes from my emotion, always.

- Lee DeWyze

Some people take pictures; I write songs.

- Lee DeWyze

There are so many good venues in Chicago.

- Lee DeWyze

I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.

- Lee DeWyze

When I meet the right girl I'll definitely have no hesitations to a relationship.

- Lee DeWyze

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

- Lee DeWyze

Winning 'American Idol' is awesome.

- Lee DeWyze

Writing isn't everyone's favorite thing to do or what their thing is.

- Lee DeWyze

Writing on the road is a passion of mine.

- Lee DeWyze

I think a big part of 'American Idol' that scares people and actually has, I'm sure, stopped people from trying out is the fact that you do have to do things that are necessarily not your genre.

- Lee DeWyze

If you've ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.

- Lee DeWyze

Food in Chicago is the best.

- Lee DeWyze

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

- Lee DeWyze

Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.

- Lee DeWyze