American Idol’s Jacob Lusk: I Was Getting a Little Tired

People.com :    After an emotionally draining experience on American Idol in which he would be judged as pitchy one week and then on par with Luther Vandross the next, Jacob Lusk exited the competition this week after tough performances of “No Air” and “Love Hurts.”

Still, an upbeat Lusk, the 23-year-old church singer and spa concierge from Compton, Calif., talked to reporters about the ouster and what’s next.

Having been in the bottom three before, did you think your time was up?
I had expected it not because of my bottom three finishes but because of the judges’ feedback and my performances this past week. I feel that I was the only one who wasn’t in his element this week. Everyone else was in their element and I did songs that weren’t in my genre that weren’t really my thing. … This wasn’t the time to do that, and I feel that’s why I was voted off, not because I was horrible or they didn’t like me or they liked somebody else better. Those four people that are there were amazing.

Was the pressure of the competition getting to you?
I wouldn’t say the pressure was getting to me. I will say I was getting a little tired probably. I was really just trying to do different things that producer Jimmy Iovine thought I would like. But at the end of the day, I really said, ‘I’m going to go out there and give it my all and I am not going to hold anything back.’