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American Idol New Winner Lee DeWyze

As American Idol‘s season 9 winner Lee DeWyze worked his way along the photo press line backstage at the Nokia Theater last night, he kept thanking the photographers for all of their support. The 24-year-old former paint salesman did appear to be rather overwhelmed by his great good fortune, but that didn’t stop him from talking a mile a minute about how he came to realize he could win, why he chose U2′s “Beautiful Day” as his Idol coronation song, and how he deals with those pesky nerves.

It looked like you were almost going to walk off stage after you learned the results.
I didn’t know what to do when I won, man. It was a surreal experience. What do you do when you win American Idol? I don’t know — I’ve never done it before, you know? Gah — it’s just, it’s like — it’s like something I can’t even explain to you right now. It’s amazing.

When I stopped questioning myself. It’s really hard. When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does at some point in their life question themselves. Like any decision anyone else has made, you know, I made a decision to do something, and I did the best that I could at it. And that’s all anybody can do when they do anything. It got me here. There have been bumps in the road, you know. It’s just a matter of getting over those things and becoming a better person, a better performer, for all of it.

It looked like you were almost going to walk off stage after you learned the results.
I didn’t know what to do when I won, man. It was a surreal experience. What do you do when you win American Idol? I don’t know — I’ve never done it before, you know? Gah — it’s just, it’s like — it’s like something I can’t even explain to you right now. It’s amazing.

When I stopped questioning myself. It’s really hard. When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does at some point in their life question themselves. Like any decision anyone else has made, you know, I made a decision to do something, and I did the best that I could at it. And that’s all anybody can do when they do anything. It got me here. There have been bumps in the road, you know. It’s just a matter of getting over those things and becoming a better person, a better performer, for all of it.
Lee DeWyze on becoming the ‘American Idol’ champion: ‘I feel that a weight’s been lifted off of my shoulders’

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