Megan Joy certainly enjoyed her time on American Idol.

Even when she was called into the bottom three this week, the beautiful singer flapped her arms and cawed her way across the stage.

Such seeming indifference rubbed some people, such as Simon Cowell, the wrong way. But in a new interview with E! News, Megan explains that she was just having fun while the experience lasted...

On cawing and flapping her arms: "I love birds and bird noises, and I just decided that if I'm going out, I'm going out with a bang. I'm just gonna be myself. I flew the whole time. I'm always just making noises, and animal noises, and [Allison Iraheta and Anoop Desai] were like, 'Meg, if you go tonight, we're going to caw for you and support you.' So I [said to them after they were safe], 'Don't you forget to caw, Anoop.'"

On saying she didn't care: When asked Wednesday night what she thought of Cowell's criticism of her, Joy replied she "didn't care." Her explanation:

"I care about the competition. I didn't want people to misunderstand me not caring. I just didn't care that Simon didn't like my song. So, I couldn't help but be honest."

On critics: "I learned that there's always going to be negative people - haters if you will - that try to bring you down, but you just got to forget about 'em and move past it, always."

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