50 Clay Aiken Quotes

Clay Aiken quotes

1. 'I think I've broken three (tha-ree) cameras today!' -Rolling Stone photo shoot

2. 'I'm being trained to shake the bon-bon appropriately..' -''Access Hollywood interview about his JukeBox Tour

3. 'Clive [Davis] tried to tell me that saying certain words in a song- or as he says, 'putting some balls into it'- isn't bad, it's just strong emotion. Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.' -''Time, 10/5/03 - describing pressure he got from RCA to 'edge-up' his songs to boost sales.

4. 'I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model. I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.' -''Reuters, February 22, 2004.

5. 'In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.' -Learning To Sing, Page 240

6. 'Service, and the learning that goes with it, fosters citizenship, knowledge, and personal development in everyone, young and old, with disabilities and without. Our partnership with Youth Service America will bring awareness to the fact that youth with disabilities are great assets and can serve as volunteers too.' -U.S. Newswire[1]

7. UNICEF does amazing work. I thought I was a worldly person, and then I started working with them and realized I don't know as much of my world as I need to. And if I don't know as much about my world as I need to, then many, many, many people don't. So I'm thrilled to be in a position to be able to talk about it. And so I'm gonna. -''FLY (online) magazine, November, 2005 issue

8. I think there is a predisposition among Christians that Hollywood is anti-Jesus or anti-Christianity. I was warned I'd have to fight to maintain the freedom to express my beliefs. It's an unfair stereotype, and so far that's been the farthest from the truth. While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.' -Clay Aiken - Today's Christian Magazine[2]

9. 'Use your voice.'

10. 'It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.'

11. 'I'm never really comfortable with people cheering for me.'

12. 'I mean, come on, hello! The way I see it, I'm not that big of a prize'.

13. 'I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same.'

14. 'If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.'

15. 'I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.'

16. 'Not everybody gets a mic this big. I feel I should use it in as positive a way as I can.'

17. 'I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.'

18. Well, obviously, I didn`t expect the career. I always hoped that I`d be able to do something, whether it be as a teacher back home in North Carolina or working with some type of non-profit in some way. As the career took form, I kind of feel like it`s every celebrity`s responsibility really. I kind of like to look at this as an opportunity, I guess, to teach in a bigger classroom.'

19. 'We have someone here today, from the smash hit show American Idol, we're thrilled to have him joining us today, because when it was made known that he would appear on this Telethon, the emails and the fan clubs that this young man has have sent us $30,000.00 just at the fact that he was here.

20. 'I always like the idea that you can turn on the radio and say, 'Oh, that's Clay Aiken. Oh, that's Barbra Streisand. Oh, that's Frank Sinatra, Oh, that's Tony Bennett.' They're a star if you can identify them immediately by their sound. That kid has his own sound. He's got energy. He's got soul. He's got it all. That voice pours out of him.' -Merv Griffin

21. 'To be fair to all, nobody from the show can tell a finalist whether a song choice is good or bad, no matter how much they want to know. Byrd remembers Clay Aiken: 'He'd say, 'Byrd, if this is a great song choice, blink your left eye.' ' -Debra Byrd (talking about American Idol)

22. 'What a dear young man.'

23. 'When I review the tape [of the show] the next day, there's lots of screaming and crying,'...'Then I recover the same way I do anytime I'm injured: ice, elevation and my Clay Aiken CD.' -Ellen DeGeneres (US Weekend Magazine)

24. ' In the last ten years, as editor in chief of Today's Caregiver Magazine, I have interviewed many people who are living in the public eye, all of them having something of importance to say to family caregivers. Most times they've become caregivers after becoming famous, usually due to themselves or a family member taking ill. Our keynote speaker today is unique in that he is a professionally trained caregiver before he became known to all of us. And through the unbelievable constraints that have been placed on his time, he's never lost sight of his goal of becoming a teacher and helping children living with developmental disabilities. Only his classroom has become a whole lot larger than he ever expected.

25. 'Clay, you sing like Andre Agassi plays tennis, perfection, perfection. And I would kill to write and produce your first CD.'' - Neil Sedaka, American Idol 2 guest judge -

26. 'And Clay, I want to say something to you. I think you are one of the few people I've met throughout this competition who can take criticism like a grown up. Learn, You definitely got better, You've lost some of this facial thing which I think was distracting, and You just did a really grown up, fantastic performance. Congratulation.' - Simon Cowell on 'Solitaire' -

27. 'Clay I think, without a doubt, this performance, that song, is the best performance of the entire competition that I've ever known. Unbelievable, unbelievable. - Paula Abdul on 'Unchained Melody' -

28. 'Clay, I think this is the third pop idol, or American idol have done, if you include the english one. Probably one of the best performance I've ever heard through the entire competition. - Simon Cowell on 'To Love Somebody' -

1. Actually, I dont hate cats, Im just kind of afraid of them.

2. Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them.

3. As long as you're living right, then you don't have to worry about what people see.

4. I don't really feel like I have anybody to answer to but myself and God and the people I love.

5. The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.

6. I had been told by a number of people that if you get half of what you want on your first album, you're doing really well. Pretty much every single thing they had was something that I liked. There were maybe one or two songs I didn't like, and they were taken off the album quickly.

7. I never knew that people made a club for me!

8. I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

9. Faith is not about a building or a lifestyle. You can minister in many ways besides attending services or being a preacher. And I think that that's what I feel most thankful for--that I have the opportunity to minister now, in my own way.

10. I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass… Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.

11. It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

12. The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.

13. I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

14. Perseverance. I got cut twice. I got cut in Charlotte. I didn't have to go to Atlanta to audition. I could have said, "I'm not cut out for this." But I said, "I think I'm better than that, I can go try again." So I went to Atlanta and I made it through. Then I got cut the first time around. I could have told them I didn't want to come back for the Wild Card show but I did and look how far I got.

15. I'm tired and I don't know what day it is.

16. Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

17. There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.

18. I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.

19. I want everyone to vote. I want everyone to be a part of electing officials. Because when we are not a part, when we don't have a very broad voter base, then we don't have true representation.

20. I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.

21. I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

22. While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.