I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game
The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.
I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.