Quotes from Kelly Clarkson

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.'

Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

No matter what size I am I love performing no matter how big or little I am! I feel good.

The fact that I get to do what I love and 14 years in, I'm still doing it - I don't know how anything could get better.

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.

I've always dreamed that love would be effortlessLike a pedal falling to the ground; a dreamer following his dream.

Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.

I don't love traveling, because I'm never home. It's hard when you have a family.

I love a sexy video. I don't even mind raciness. I don't mind that at all.

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.

I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.

I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance.

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol ' or when I was 10.

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

I still watch 'Idol ' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.