DARCI LYNNE FARMER

I love eating Chipotle.

It's weird to think I'm in a show in Vegas with my name in lights. It's crazy, like a dream.

Pentatonix are amazing, and meeting Hunter Hayes was awesome.

I go to public school, which is nice because that's where I can go to be Darci, and when I perform, I'm Darci Lynne. It's my balance.

I usually hold a puppet and play with different voices until something happens and the right voice just hits me. Then, I'll pick a name that just seems to fit the character that naturally comes out.

Being on 'America's Got Talent' has really helped me expand my self-confidence on the stage and anywhere - I'm more comfortable, and it's just really helped, and I'm glad about that.

It's so fun being on the stage and in the spotlight.

I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'

I think little chubby dogs are the cutest.

There are times where I'm like, 'I wish I can do this' or 'I wish I can be normal like this,' but with my life, I try to keep it normal.

We always go to downtown Oklahoma City to look at all the Christmas lights that have been put up... We go to the Christmas Eve service at church, and we always beg my parents to open a present - just one present - on Christmas Eve. We get them to cave.

It just means so much to me that America voted for me, and I get to see all my friends and family supporting me and crying with me.

I used to have a really hard time talking to people or looking them in the eye. Or I'd always, like, hide behind my mom, and, like, when we went to restaurants, I didn't like ordering my food. I'd have my mom order it because I didn't like talking to the waiters.

Saying certain letters without moving my mouth is tough... like B, P and W, you know.

I wouldn't have the experience or the confidence to go on 'AGT' without being on 'Little Big Shots' because doing 'Little Big Shots' was really fun, but it was also really good practice for my appearance on 'AGT,' and it was just a great, awesome experience that I will remember always.

I had to keep up with my schoolwork so I could keep up my grades. That was tough to balance both being a superstar onstage but being a normal kid trying to get her math homework done.

Even though I'm in this big, crazy business, I'm still just myself. I still celebrate Christmas; I still live at home.

I guess just being more known is the biggest change, getting noticed in public and having a lot of followers on Instagram and things like that. Just a crazy new life.

Petunia relates to me more than any other. She was shy at first, but she's definitely come out of her shell, I can tell you that. Petunia is like this small little rabbit, but her big huge voice comes out of her little body.

I really don't want to guess or assume. I just leave it all to the man upstairs and the future. I'm just excited to see what comes next, and I'm gonna be ready for it.

We had a big fan base in Oklahoma City, and that was nice to know.

I hate flying. It creeps me out, and it scares me half to death.

First, I am definitely going to give some money to my mission program at church, and then I have to get my mom a dishwasher.

I love singing with my mouth open. And I'm actually able to sing even better that way.

I have to control my mouth - and that's hard enough - and then I have to manipulate the puppet and make it look real - like, make its interactions look real. And then I have to sing at the same time, and I have to have my facial expressions reacting to the puppet... So it's a lot going on, and I have to focus on every single thing at the same time.