"I feel today good."
after Levi asked him "How do you feel about today" when they were at the AFL grand final.

"I think Paulini is mighty bootyliscious!"
defending Paulini on the 'fat' issue

"Sorry are you finished? I butt in a lot, sorry."
when a person in the audience asked him a question

"I don't know, it's kinda freakin' me out!"
after "The Way You Look Tonight", when James asked him something along the lines of how he felt about having such an effect on women

"I'll definitely be able to keep going, and if not, I'll keep going anyway."

"Thats the best feeling ever, I've never had to be escorted to the toilets before!"
when the Final 12 were doing their first autograph signing session and Guy had to be escorted to the toilets

"There's so much stuff that happens; it's like we go to bed, we wake up, we freak out, we go to bed, we wake up, freak out again..."
on the whirlwind of publicity week

"Whoever wins, we're just gonna go 'sucked in, you gotta sing that everywhere you go!"
on the single 'Angels Brought Me Here'

"It's cool to wear it backwards!"
after accidentally putting on his Harbour Bridge suit back-to-front

"I'm just a twisted, twisted dude in my head and I don't like doin' things the same."
on rearranging songs

"Only one thing I like more than singing, and that's... riding my beast!"
on his motorbike

"I was sitting in the cubicle thinking 'Man, I don't wanna come out; this guy's gonna kill me!'"
hearing the famous 'angry nose-ring guy' practising in the Adelaide auditions bathroom

"Umm... food, I think. I'm really hungry."
after making his first audition and being asked "What's going through your mind?"

"I think I'm glad it's over... pretty excited... but I'm really hungry too!"
on making it to Sydney

"I'd better be quick 'cos I have to let the tyres down on Shannon's car."
while giving an autograph during publicity week

"Could be the only time I ever sing in this place... unless I take up opera..."
on his Opera House performance

"I'm shaving my head in about three days."
to the media straight after winning

"You guys all lit up! 'What a scoop!'"
on the media's reaction to shaving his head

"That's when I had bits of glitter stuck in my mouth!"
seeing photo of himself winning Idol in the newspaper

"What am I, your mother?"
helping Shannon straighten his jacket before the Australian Idol 2003 Grand Finale

"Yeah, I've been sort of storing a bit of arsenic."
on advice to sabotage Shannon

"You boys set me up, didn't you! This is a set up!"
on being made to ask for votes from someone who was, in fact, a Shannon fan

"I'm never ever gonna sing again!"
at age 11 after his first live performance

"Who wakes up at this hour?! Devoted Adelaide fans wake up at this hour!"
at around 6am

"Come on Pete, floor it! Can't have Shannon beating us!"
baiting his limo driver

"Oh, no way! They're escorting me through the red light!"
on the police escort around his limo

"It was great to just get out and get physi-cal with all the fans."
on the hug-fest that was the whirlwind tour

"Why didn't he cuddle me?"
after Paulini was hugged by the basketball Lion mascot

"You think your mane's better than mine? Freak."
still resentful about not getting a cuddle ^_^.
 

"I think it's my bung eye."
on being easily recognisable

"You joking? I look like a pimp!"
on his first Lenny Kravitz outfit reject

"Dunno 'bout all the bling blings..."
on his second Lenny Kravitz outfit reject

"Darth Vader goes denim!"
on his third Lenny Kravitz outfit reject

"Oh my goodness. My mother is gonna kill me."
on his fourth Lenny Kravitz outfit reject ^_^.

"I'm thinging a thong by - a thong?"
introducing his next thong

"What turned out to be laziness to cut my hair has become my little icon."
on the fro

"I think I'm gonna send hairdressers broke back home."
on fro fever

"If you see me wearin' a beanie you'll know it's 'cos I just could not be stuffed doin' my hair."
on his high-maintenance hair

"Only bad thing about riding is getting this helmet over my fro!"

on motorbike riding

"Finger in the electric socket."
explaining the 'fro to Dicko
 

"I reckon I've hugged more people this week than I ever have in my whole life."
on the whirlwind tour

"If he wins, I'll be the happiest man; if I win, I know he'll be the happiest man, so it's just an awesome, cool vibe."
on his competition with Shannon

"When people vote... it's like, they're trying to make you achieve your dreams; it's awesome!"
on getting emotional over being voted for

"I just think there's someone looking after me!"
on all the cool things he gets to do

"This is awesome; you get cheers for anything!"
after the crowd cheered some random comment

"I'll bastardise every single one of 'em!"
on Dicko joking that he would overcomplicate his album's songs
 

"I'm nervous to talk to you too!"
when a fan greeted him with "I'm nervous to talk to you!"

"That was boring; it honestly bored me. And don't interpret songs; don't make them your own!"
pretending to be Dicko judging Marcia and Mark's Panel performance

"Catch me a marrrlin!"
on a boat in his best pirate voice

"I could've taken someone out with my hair the other night; a lotta hair spray."
on all the hair spray he was wearing!

"The most important lesson I've learnt is in every situation to have joy. I think every time I've got down I've chosen to be positive and it's worked and kept me sane."

his response after being asked the most important lesson he's learnt

"I think I was in year 9 and I'd sung a Boys II Men song which talks about dying and talks about heaven and when I looked up I saw all the teachers and students crying and I thought that maybe I could touch people."

on his first performance
 

"It wasn't for me. I remember waking up every morning just hating going to work experience, seeing cancer and death every say and I just needed to get out. I remember coming to a point when I just couldn't do it anymore"
on medical radiation which he started studying at uni after he'd finished high school.

"It was a really hard decision first because I was following a really safe road, finacially and as a career"
on making the decision to quit uni.

"It was really freaky to start teaching without any experience...but I love my kids"
on teaching.

"My motorbike riding is kinda of my escape just from teaching and music and everything I do"
on riding his motorbike.

"It's good to just get on my bike and sorta cruise through the hills or just go for a ride and I really love it, I love the freeness of it"
on motorbike riding.