Grammy award winning singer Carrie Underwood was born born March 10, 1983 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She was the fourth season American Idol winner.

• "I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not."




• "I'm not preaching. It's just a beautiful song I figured a lot of people could relate to whether they believe in God or not. Everybody has had a time in their life when they needed help with something."




• "I wanted to sing country music because that's where I wanted to go whether I won or not afterwards. Even if I got fourth, fifth, or sixth place, I wanted to have some country label out there see me and be like, 'We want her!'""




• "When I first got to Hollywood. I was just walking around, taking pictures of the Palm trees and stuff like that. And this guy walked up to me and asked if I'd seen any stars and I said: 'No, it's been kind of cloudy today.'"




• "I'm a horror-movie fan: Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, I freak myself out sometimes when I'm home alone."




• "I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids."




• "American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything."




• "We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from-Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either."




• "My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer."

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