Clay Aiken Quotes

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

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.

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

A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a smile means. A song works the same way. Music produces feelings that need no translation.

It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

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.

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was disappointing her if I got a bad grade. That had more power over me than teachers who told me I talked too much. That level of respect I had for her made me not want to fail for her.

When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions
always a minimum of five hundred times
and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up ... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

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

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

I'm around a lot of good people who keep me grounded and don't let me get too high above my raisings. I have some good friends who don't talk about my job, and that's nice. Those are the friends who are my favorites. That helps a lot.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

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

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

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

And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a child's development. I hope that as an Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's mission to make education a reality for children throughout the world.

Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.

I auditioned just for fun.

I don't really do New Year's resolutions because I don't think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you've got a problem, you need to fix it now.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, "That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day." You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on.

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you to be-this process takes support. No one succeeds alone.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

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

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

I'm being trained to shake the bon-bon appropriately.

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

I'd hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

I really love live performing!

Every kiss is a kiss you can never get back.

I never knew that people made a club for me!

I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.

I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

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.

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.