Everyone's talking about the scream you did at the end of "Dream On." What did you think about it?
I was actually thinking about that this morning. I was like, man, maybe that was kind of like the downfall because the week before, I had a really good performance. I really wanted to have a big song that week, and so I took a risk. I never did rock and I think it could have been one of the variables. Being so late in the competition, you don't want to have a performance like that. The thing is, everything in that performance was good up to that point, and I rehearsed that scream so much that I really hurt my vocal cords. It takes a lot to hurt them, and that one did it because I was sore on my home visit, and I'm still kind of sore this week. I thought it was funny, though.

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