Quotes from Darci Lynne Farmer

I do a lot of vocal exercises and drink hot tea, which I hate.

I usually hold a puppet and play with different voices until something happens and the right voice just hits me. Then, I'll pick a name that just seems to fit the character that naturally comes out.

Singing in multiple voices, especially Oscar's, can make my vocal chords tired.

It just means so much to me that America voted for me, and I get to see all my friends and family supporting me and crying with me.

I wouldn't have the experience or the confidence to go on 'AGT' without being on 'Little Big Shots' because doing 'Little Big Shots' was really fun, but it was also really good practice for my appearance on 'AGT,' and it was just a great, awesome experience that I will remember always.

I used to have a really hard time talking to people or looking them in the eye. Or I'd always, like, hide behind my mom, and, like, when we went to restaurants, I didn't like ordering my food. I'd have my mom order it because I didn't like talking to the waiters.

It's just weird because I can't believe that all those people wanna come see me. Like, there's so many. So, it's just crazy to think about, but it's also really awesome.

Even though I'm in this big, crazy business, I'm still just myself. I still celebrate Christmas; I still live at home.

I had to keep up with my schoolwork so I could keep up my grades. That was tough to balance both being a superstar onstage but being a normal kid trying to get her math homework done.

I just really like performing for different crowds and seeing different places.

I fangirl when I see someone famous wish me congratulations.

During the week, I'm a normal kid, and then on the weekends, I go out and perform to thousands of people.

I'm a person who hates practicing. It's my arch-nemesis, but it helps.

Sometimes when I'm performing, whenever my puppet cracks a joke, it actually makes me laugh.

We are a very faithful family, and that's very important.

My last name's kind of interesting - Farmer. I don't really think it's interesting for the stage. I think Lynne kind of had a better ring to it.

I go to public school, which is nice because that's where I can go to be Darci, and when I perform, I'm Darci Lynne. It's my balance.

I actually did a project with my puppet one time in fourth grade. I made up a song that went with the rhythm to a song I do now. And I had to make up a song about a penguin and research and put information in the song about a penguin. And I sang it with my duck, because I didn't have a penguin puppet, but close enough.

One time, it was really funny, I was going on stage... and they were like, 'Oh, we didn't mic the puppet! Mic the puppet!' So, that's how I know that sometimes I do a very good job, because they think that the puppet is actually, like, real.

All of my puppets have their own personalities, their own background, and they enjoy what they do. How they say things, sing things, how they talk. I kind of created them out of my own personality. They are all me.

I wanted to get a puppy, but then things started getting super, super busy, and I didn't have a chance.

I would love to get a pug. A puppy, a baby pug - I just want one so bad.

I hate flying. It creeps me out, and it scares me half to death.

Being on 'America's Got Talent' has really helped me expand my self-confidence on the stage and anywhere - I'm more comfortable, and it's just really helped, and I'm glad about that.