It was like the more I stopped answering my phone and stopped talking to him, he got even more mad. He was like, 'Answer your damn phone when I call you.
- Jessica Sierra

I told him, 'I'm not coming to pick you up. He said, 'If you don't come pick me up, I'm taking a cab to your grandparents' house.
- Jessica Sierra

I told him, 'You are scary. You're scaring me. He said, 'How do you know I'm scary? You don't even know me.
- Jessica Sierra

When someone tells me I can't do something, that makes me all the more determined to do it and succeed. That's why I came back and auditioned again for American Idol. I needed to prove to myself I could do it.
- Jessica Sierra

One of the greatest parts of my whole experience on American Idol is seeing how happy and proud my grandmother is. I am so glad my grandparents are still alive to see me on the show.
- Jessica Sierra