J.R. Martinez interview
Seacrest interviews Martinez during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about a part of the first American Giving Awards.
[AGA is] A show about honoring people who are doing great things on a local level. We’re going to honor those people who are stepping up, and have found a way to do something for other people. I’m about trying to highlight people, and tell their stories that have done great things in their community.
Sarah Hyland interview
Seacrest interviews Hyland during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about how she got the part of Haley Dunphy in the tv show Modern Family.
I had graduated high school and the show that I was on in New York got canceled. I was like, ‘Why not move to LA. It’s about to be pilot season. Sarah gave herself a 2 month goal to find work and tells us “‘Modern Family’ was one of my first 5 auditions and a in month, I booked it. So, I made my 2 month goal.
Lady Gaga interview
Seacrest interviews Gaga during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about how Britney Spears teaches her to always preform her hit songs.
I would be so mad if I went to see my favorite pop singer, and they didn’t play all the big hits. When I went to see Britney [Spears], I just remember thinking in that moment, ‘If I feel this way, I bet the audience feels this way.
T-Pain interview
Seacrest interviews T-Pain during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about the kind of music he likes to listen too.
There was actually an entire year that I didn’t listen to anything, but country. I’ve studied country, listened to their harmonies, and I implemented that into my music too. I have a lot of fun. I was always told, if you love what you do then you never work a day in your life.
George Clooney interview
Seacrest interviews Clooney during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about the difficulty of acting.
Acting is not hard work. I find it challenging and sometimes I’m very bad at it, but I don’t find it hard.
Lady Gaga interview
Seacrest interviews Gaga during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about how her family reacted to the single Marry The Night.
My dad called me and he was like, ‘That was so raw, and the angles that you chose.’ My dad really understands me. So he said he loved how linear it was in the beginning, and then in the middle it was chaotic and at the end it was graphic, but that it wasn’t really.
My family knows my vocabulary. My sister’s a fashion designer too so I guess in our household we’re sort of used to talking about art and fashion and music all the time. And same thing at the Grammy nominations, he’s like, ‘That opening was the [expletive]!’ And he said something like ‘Never wear red, white and blue, always be the underdog.’ I was like, ‘Yeah okay Dad have you had a couple drinks?
Willow Smith interview
Seacrest interviews Smith during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about working with Nicki Minaj on her single Fire Ball.
Nicki Minaj is an absolutely an amazing person. She has so much energy, and working with her was like just [a] spark. I think that she [Nicki Minaj] is a Rhinestone Teddy Bear.
Mac Lethal interview
Seacrest interviews Lethal during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about how he came up with The Pancake Rap parody of Christ Brown’s Look At Me Now.
I asked my fans on Facebook what they would like to see, and they picked that beat. I decided to give it an interesting spin so I thought of ‘Cook With Me Now’ just to change it. I didn’t want to do a Weird Al Yankovic, no disrespect, I just didn’t want to say ‘Cook With Me Now’ I wanted to actually be cooking, because I can cook rather well. So, I picked something really easy to cook, and shot it. It took about 16 takes. It would be two pancakes per take. There was a stack of about 32 pancakes.” Mac has been under the public radar for almost a decade, but past few years have gone rather well. He even encourages that other YouTube performers are able to.
Russell Brand interview
Seacrest interviews Brand during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about whats next for him in his career.
Next year I’m spending some time with the Mrs., then I’m doing a movie. It’s a serious movie. It’s from Diablo Cody, the Oscar winning writer of Juno, she’s written and directed it. I’m very excited about it. I trained as a serious actor so I did Shakespeare back in England. But you know me I like ‘mucking’ around so when it starts I might want to do a joke.
Adam Shankman interview
Seacrest interviews Shankman during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about getting Tom Cruise to act in his film Rock Of Ages and his version of The Nutcracker.
He [Cruise] was grinning ear to ear. He [Cruise] just said ‘I’ve never seen a movie like this before.
It’s kind of like an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Gothic retelling of “The Nutcracker” story and it’s not the ballet. We are going back to the original story of it.
Jackson Rathbone interview
Seacrest interviews Rathbone during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about co-staring in the film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1.
People cry at weddings! It’s the nature of the beast. Finally, we get to see these two characters that we all fell in love with, Bella & Edward, tie the knot and it’s very exciting. I think most people were really excited by the honeymoon scene!
Michelle Williams interview
Seacrest interviews Williams during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about how she gained weight for her role in the film My Week with Marilyn.
Believe me, if I could gain weight and get Marilyn Monroe’s body I would have done that a long time ago. Unfortunately, it doesn’t distribute that way for me. I added more of where I could, and I never looked at a scale. It was more of a feeling. “Do I feel like I’m filling out the clothes? Is this adding to my ‘wiggle?
Ricki Lake interview
Seacrest interviews Lake during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about who she thinks will win this season of Dancing With The Stars.
J.R. [Martinez] is going to win. I feel like I won already and I resigned to take second or third and that will be just fine.
Travie McCoy interview
Seacrest interviews McCoy during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about being number 1 on American Top 40.
We kind of knew we had something special with ‘Stereo Hearts,‘ but it’s really taken off! I’m still trying to catch up with everything. When Adam [Levine] cut his vocals I was blown away with take after take. Everything was so effortless for him. When magic like that happens you let do it’s own thing. Songs About Jane‘ came out was around the time we got signed, and went in to make our first record. We actually used ‘Songs About Jane‘ as a reference of what we wanted in terms of sound. So we’ve definitely been huge fans. When management asked us years ago who we wanted to collaborate with we said, ‘Adam from Maroon 5.’ It’s crazy how its come full circle.
Redfoo interview
Seacrest interviews Redfoo during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about the making of his single Sexy And I Know It.
A friend of ours came up with the idea of I’m Sexy And I Know It. When you hear it you just know that could be the biggest phrases in the world if it’s done right. We worked on that song for like four or five months.
Audrina Patridge interview
Seacrest interviews Patridge during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about the last time she saw co-star Kristin Cavallari
I was really excited, because I haven’t seen anyone in awhile. We showed up at the same time and we both had black and red on, it looked like planned it out.” So, will these two be working together again? Nothing in the works, but maybe one day. I mean, something different, because we both know each other, we are comfortable, so that’s always nice.
Jennifer Lopez interview
Seacrest interviews Lopez during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about rumors of her dating her backup dancers.
I told everybody at the end of the day, until I am in a really serious relationship, because of the babies, I’m not really going to be commenting on my personal life.
David Beckham interview
Seacrest interviews Beckham during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about welcoming his new daughter Harper to the family.
So beautiful. Having a little girl in the house with Victoria is a whole different vibe now. She’s so chilled. Be a little more tender with a little girl. She’s so feminine! I’ve never had that before obviously with three boys. Everything she does is feminine. Her little noises. The way that she drinks her bottle. The way that she moves her hand. The way that she smiles.
Derek Hough interview
Seacrest interviews Hough during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about who he thinks will win Dancing With The Stars.
I definitely think that J.R. [Martinez] has really been a front runner all season, and he has done such a great job. So, I definitely think he’ll be in there. Hopefully Ricki [Lake] and I will be there. In the past seasons that I’ve won, I’ve felt more pressure to win, but with this season I don’t really feel that pressure. I feel like Ricki has accomplished so much already. She’s lost like 20 pounds, she’s healthy, she’s doing great, she’s learning dances. I feel like whatever the outcome, I think it is going to be a successful season either way.
Patti Stanger interview
Seacrest interviews Stanger during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about why she thinks everyone should duty date if you haven’t dated in a long time.
Sometimes it is not the guy or the girl you want, but it’s going on a date. It’s being appreciative that someone is buying you dinner. It’s practicing flirting and he may end up being the guy in the end. And it is definitely not necessary to reveal to your date that it is a “practice” date. The key is to date a pair and a spare. You should always have three at the same time.