The End Of The Road

In honor of the end of the Idol 7 live tour MSNBC compiled a collection of great excerpts from a speed dating type interview done with five of the 7 singers.
I particularly liked the excerpt of the David Cook Interview - it demonstrates the effects of this kind of exposure.

Hirsh: Are you ever weirded out by the intensity of your fans?

Cook: I don’t know “weirded out.” I’m definitely humbled to a very severe degree by it. Today, for instance, prime example, I got a package in the mail at the arena. On the show, I talked about one of my favorite foods is a taquito from this gas station called QuikTrip in the Midwest. And I got a package today…

Hirsh: This can’t end well.

Cook: They’re on ice. I just got a ton of QuikTrip taquitos. I don’t know, that’s the kind of stuff that you don’t really think about when you’re going through the process. And all of a sudden it happens, and you’re like, “Man, these people are really invested in what I’m doing.” Which is cool. And I hope that parlays, obviously, into a long and fruitful musical career. But if not, I got QuikTrip taquitos, so it’s pretty good.

Hirsh: There’s a box of frozen taquitos.

Cook: Exactly. It’s a win/win.

Hirsh: Who gets that?

Cook: I do. That’s who gets it. I might share. We’ll see.

Hirsh: What you have done differently in retrospect?

Cook: Would I change anything? Yes. I would’ve cut my hair waaaay sooner on the show.

There are also excerpts of Book White who talks about singing with Graham Nash,
Syesha Mercado about embracing broadway, Ramiele Malubay about missing Mariah week (and Simons remark to her that it would have been her week)and Jason Castro who is really sweet and modest.

Thank you MasterClass Lady for pointing me in the right direction