David Archuleta -- A Day in the Life

excerpts from the interview he gave the site www.popeater.com

"I didn't know how far I was going to get [on 'American Idol']," Archuleta told PopEater. "I didn't even think I was going to get past the first round, so after the first couple of auditions, I was like 'Wow, things are actually happening. There might be something that could come from this.' There was a time when I sat down and thought for a long time and just made the decisions there: how I was going to respond to whatever happened, no matter what happened. This is how I wanted to handle things, and this is the attitude I wanted to keep. People are noticing what I'm doing, and this is how I want to come across."
"It's important to try to keep a positive attitude," Archuleta added. "It's not the easiest thing. I may not be able to keep up with everything but I try my best. You can look at the negative things and the things that are going wrong, but there are so many positive things, too. It's so important to just keep that hope because when you're hopeful about life, it'll affect the decisions you make and it'll affect how you'll choose to have your future turn out." 


"If you make one decision versus another, there's always going to be something you miss and sometimes I think I let that get to myself," he admitted. "But I just feel happy that I'm going this way because music is always something I was able to connect to more than people were able to understand in school. There were people who love music there, but it was so hard because I wasn't good at sports. I wasn't in those genius clubs where all my friends were. It was like, 'Where do I fit in?'"
"I feel like the point of life is to look at all the good things we have," he said before bidding farewell to PopEater. "The more you focus on that, that'll be more of your outcome."