Ellen is an American Idol's New Judge

"Hopefully I'm the people's point of view, because I'm just like you. I sit at home and I watch it...I'm not looking at it in a critical way, from the music producer's mind. I'm looking at it as a person who's going to buy the music, and who's going to relate to that person. "So I'm hopefully going to be the voice of what we're all doing at home."[...] Go, go Ellen!