Clay Aiken Quotes

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

  Clay Aiken

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  Tags in Afraid, Cat

• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Singing, Lives, Difference, Career

• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Know, Control, Beginning

• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Children, Life

  Tags in One Day, Allowed, Principal, Direction, Myself, Problem, Married, Day

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Matter, Difference

• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pessimist, Optimist, Realist, Little

• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Sticks, Necessarily, Forehead, Hair, Happy, Myself, Know

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Model, Know

• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Words, Sell, Better, Certain, Sound, Million

• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Indifference, Necessarily, Important

• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Planned, Let Go

• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Education, Life, Love

  Tags in Decided, Working, Special, Planned

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Team, Clock, People, Hours

• I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It’s at the point now where it’s old.

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  Tags in American, During, Sixteen, Week

• 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?

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grocery, Hand, Bread

• I did get a degree in special education.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Degree, Special

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

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Show, Special

• You know, I think I’m a stronger person for realizing that you can’t make everybody love you.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person

• I mean, that’s kind of what this business is about in some ways. You’re trying to make everybody like you. But you can’t do that. You can’t force everybody – anybody to like you if they’re just not willing to do it.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Anybody, Willing

• 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.

  Clay Aiken

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Changing, Trap, Watch

Clay Aiken (36)

Birth:	30th November, 1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Lyricist, Politician, Singer, Social Worker, Television Personality

About

Clayton Holmes "Clay" Aiken was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is an American singer, songwriter, TV personality, actor, author, politician and social activist. Aiken was the 2014 Democratic nominee in the North Carolina 2nd congressional district election. He began his rise to fame placing second on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. He released four more albums on the RCA label: Merry Christmas with Love, A Thousand Different Ways, and the Christmas EP, All is Well. He authored a New York Times best-selling book Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life. He was the "UNICEF Ambassador of Education for All Children Worldwide"; he traveled extensively on their behalf in this role.

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