With me, everybody I meet always has a clean slate.
My mom rebuilt our family. That's why my dad spent so much time talking about my mom, who he's incredibly proud of.
Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people need closure after they've left and then coming back. I've seen it happen with people I knew growing up that hated each other, and then years later you go home and you see them walking down the street and they have babies.
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
People had told me to try 'The X Factor' for years, but I thought I'd be moody and hate it all. But it's what I needed. I asked Mum and Dad to come to my 'X Factor' audition, and it was the first time that they'd been in the same room in years.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
You can run into people, and they can be someone you thought you were never going to hear from again or never gonna talk to again, and they end up becoming dear friends.
This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.
An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.
It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.
