Ventriloquism kind of helped me find my voice. It's really helped me come out of my shell.
— Darci Lynne Farmer
It's so fun being on the stage and in the spotlight.
I had to keep up with my schoolwork so I could keep up my grades. That was tough to balance both being a superstar onstage but being a normal kid trying to get her math homework done.
I really don't want to guess or assume. I just leave it all to the man upstairs and the future. I'm just excited to see what comes next, and I'm gonna be ready for it.
One day, my brother had his friend over, and they were in the laundry room, and I stuck my puppet's head around the door and then started chasing them with it and made my puppet laugh very scary. It was really funny.
I love hanging out with my friends, because I have the best group of friends ever.
I actually did a project with my puppet one time in fourth grade. I made up a song that went with the rhythm to a song I do now. And I had to make up a song about a penguin and research and put information in the song about a penguin. And I sang it with my duck, because I didn't have a penguin puppet, but close enough.
We are a very faithful family, and that's very important.
I sing 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.' It's a country song. It's one of my favorites to sing.
I would love to get a pug. A puppy, a baby pug - I just want one so bad.
I got to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, which is just so amazing. That stage is iconic; it was awesome being on it.
I fangirl when I see someone famous wish me congratulations.
I just really like performing for different crowds and seeing different places.
Saying certain letters without moving my mouth is tough... like B, P and W, you know.
My parents prepared me for the worst, hoped for the best.
Oklahoma is my home. It's definitely slower paced than California.
I used to have a really hard time talking to people or looking them in the eye. Or I'd always, like, hide behind my mom, and, like, when we went to restaurants, I didn't like ordering my food. I'd have my mom order it because I didn't like talking to the waiters.
It's so God-given - my talent - because it took so very little time to get it down to where I was able to perform.
I don't see myself as celebrity like other people do. I just think that's funny.
I love singing - singing was basically kind of my passion before ventriloquism.
It's weird to think I'm in a show in Vegas with my name in lights. It's crazy, like a dream.
I'm a person who hates practicing. It's my arch-nemesis, but it helps.
A little before my 10th birthday, I was like, 'Can I please have a puppet, Mom and Dad?' They were like, 'No. You are a singer, not a ventriloquist. You have three brothers, and you're in gymnastics. There's no way we have time for this.'
It's good to get critiqued, so you can get better - and I want to do that.
All of my puppets have their own personalities, their own background, and they enjoy what they do. How they say things, sing things, how they talk. I kind of created them out of my own personality. They are all me.
I can't remember if I got recognized at Disneyland. I probably did a couple of times as well, but I can't remember.
That was my goal going on 'AGT,' was to keep ventriloquism alive and get it more common, to put it out in the open so kids like me who wanted to pursue it as a passion... can do it.
Oklahoma has been so great to me.
I really, really want a golf cart, but I know that won't happen.
I was on 'AGT,' and I was like, 'Well, face it Darci, you are just going to probably get out on the first live round.'
I usually hold a puppet and play with different voices until something happens and the right voice just hits me. Then, I'll pick a name that just seems to fit the character that naturally comes out.
I don't like sweet, warm beverages. It makes me gag!
I like to watch 'America's Got Talent' every Tuesday just to scout out the competition so I can see what I'm up against.
I do get recognized a lot in public. And that's just kind of weird to me.
I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'
Embrace who you are. It's OK if you're shy sometimes. Just don't worry about what others think. Do your thing.
My last name's kind of interesting - Farmer. I don't really think it's interesting for the stage. I think Lynne kind of had a better ring to it.
I wouldn't have the experience or the confidence to go on 'AGT' without being on 'Little Big Shots' because doing 'Little Big Shots' was really fun, but it was also really good practice for my appearance on 'AGT,' and it was just a great, awesome experience that I will remember always.
I love eating Chipotle.
'Stranger Things' is the best TV show ever made, so I love watching that.
What has been so great out of all of the success is that I inspired so many people to take up ventriloquism, especially little kids.
I started with Katie, a doll I got on eBay on my 10th birthday. I don't use her anymore. I've got a new Katie now, a real ventriloquist's puppet.
I got to go to Hawaii with my family. That was really, really fun.
I actually am a country music fan. I listen to a lot of Blake Shelton and Carrie Underwood and Maren Morris and Keith Urban.
I want to meet Jimmy Fallon. I want to meet Kristin Chenoweth, and I want to meet Ryan Gosling.
I think little chubby dogs are the cutest.
Singing in multiple voices, especially Oscar's, can make my vocal chords tired.
Being on 'America's Got Talent' has really helped me expand my self-confidence on the stage and anywhere - I'm more comfortable, and it's just really helped, and I'm glad about that.
I do a lot of vocal exercises and drink hot tea, which I hate.
I have to control my mouth - and that's hard enough - and then I have to manipulate the puppet and make it look real - like, make its interactions look real. And then I have to sing at the same time, and I have to have my facial expressions reacting to the puppet... So it's a lot going on, and I have to focus on every single thing at the same time.
