Kris Allen

I think it was real hard for him to do something for the album, but I think he wanted to do something. He put this little spin on it. It's been really great, I mean he has a great voice, He's been really complimentary on what I've done so it's been great.

I don't know exactly how it came about, we just kinda heard about it and kind of rejoiced. It was pretty awesome! He's such a great artist, such a great guy and he's really fun to work with. We did a cover, "Boys of Summer," in Vegas a couple of nights ago, and he's just an easy guy. He really is. He really likes for everything to be fun and he makes everything a lot of fun so it's cool.

Oh, I don't think so.

I mean, my thing is that everything happens for a reason, but if I could go back and I would love to spend more time on it, you know? I think that's the only thing that I would've loved to do you know. We only got so much time for the album. We had four months to make it, three of those months were on tour, so there wasn't a whole lot of studio time in there. But it turned out really great though.

Yeah, it's funny because people figured that out now - we signed them from a while back. I'm writing stuff right now and am kind of focusing just on touring right now. We'll get to the second album, you know, when it gets here.

Kind of the same stuff, maybe a little bit more raw. We're just going to wait until we get in a studio and kind of figure things out.

Yeah, I went to Haiti probably a while back. It was a really weird experience. You know, it sucks, and it was crappy over there, but it was cool. I went over with the UN, and it was cool to see what they were doing, making everything better, putting people in shelters, getting people food and working with the government. They're on track to making everything a lot better than it was.

I think there are a couple. I was working on picking up the rubble and throwing it into this big truck and somebody had found a body. This is way after the fact. I guess they're still finding bodies. That was a pretty harsh experience and definitely a little weird. Then there was also a moment when we asked our translator, 'do you think there's any chance for hope?' and she said, 'Yeah, it really feels like that.' That was a cool thing, too.

Yeah, I went over there for like a week, and I got back probably two weeks ago, and it was so cool, man. It's the most beautiful place I've ever been. We handed out some shoes to about a 1000 kids and that was really great to be able to do something like that. It seems so small, but these kids don't have shoes and it's a big deal. So handing out shoes to the kids was just very rewarding and means so much to them. We went back home and did a concert for raising awareness about it. It's just really cool, man.

No, I don't think so. It's been great actually. She likes that I get to do what I want to do, she likes the time that she's been able to spend in L.A. and she's been able to travel with me to a couple places the last couple months. That's been even better. She didn't travel with me at first so you know, getting to travel with me the past couple of months has been nice.

I think it takes time, it takes time for these people to kinda get used to what's going on. I know it did me. Once you get used to all the stuff and the cameras and what you kinda have to do throughout the week. I think they're just starting to hit their stride. I think they're really talented. I think Crystal's got a great voice, I think Lee's got a great voice. I think Casey's going to do really well.

I don't exactly know how that's going to affect it but it's obviously going to affect it in some way. I think the people that work on that show and the people in charge they've obviously done their thing and it's been the number one show forever. I think it'll be fun to find a replacement.

Absolutely. I'm going to Allison's birthday party is tomorrow. And yeah I talked to Adam, you know he's so busy that we don't see each other at all that often although we do text plenty. I see Anoop once in a while. I talked to Alex and Matt Giraud. I mean there's a lot of talking going on.

Oh, you know, the thing is that Adam has always been who he is, and he has never hidden anything from me. I don't exactly know how people didn't know. You know, I was his roommate from the very beginning, so I mean I never had any problem with it, so him coming out was old news to me.

That's pretty much it, man, we're going to start going out in June or late May so we're gonna be out there the rest of the summer. We're out there be looking out for us.