'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 -

' 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 …

'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. L…

'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, elevat…

You know, Aretha Franklin can make any old rubbish sound good, and I think she just has.' (After an Aretha Franklin duet with George Michael on 'Top of the Pop…

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another. ~ Claudio Arrau

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.