Michael Johns: Dream On Until Dreams Come True

I would be lying to say that I wasn’t shocked to be eliminated. I hadn’t been in the bottom three and I thought the last two or three weeks had been my strongest. We’re in this competition...stuff can happen, and it did. It’s been a whirlwind.

Dream On

I’ve never chosen a song based on what the competition is doing. I think I pick songs that mean something to me lyrically and emotionally. Singing “Dream On” by Aerosmith with a 20-piece orchestra...that’s amazing.

I’m living my dream. That song is all about how they can struggle and overcome things, and I’ve done that for the last 10 years. Living in America, this is my dream. Dream on until the dreams come true, and they’re coming true right now. That’s why I chose that song for sure.

Simon Says

Sometimes Simon is off the mark, to be honest. Most times he’s on, and I respect his opinion a lot, but he wanted me to sing that soul blues stuff every week.

I’m a rock soul singer. I like to do both genres, so I wasn’t necessarily going to always hand it to what the judges said every week. Some weeks they loved it, some weeks they didn’t.

A Season In The Stars

It has been written in the press that this is the best Top 12. Of any season that I could have been on, to be a part of this one was just really special. The fact that there was no laughingstock, there were no jokers. I think we had a lot of respect in the public eye, and that’s something I can be very proud of.

A Call From Nicole Kidman And Keith Urban

It was a message passed on to me at an event we went to on Wednesday night after Idol Gives Back.