Best 100 quotes of Kelly Clarkson on MyQuotes

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

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

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.

Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.

Everyone says I'm like the girl next door... Y'all must have really weird neighbors!

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.

Honestly, I just think we all have special gifts, everyone. You know, obviously, some are more noticeable than others and that's why there's the limelight. Everybody's in it.

I am just like my mother. She raised me to love and take care of animals, especially the ones that need it the most and so I started Eddie's Rescue Ranch. We take in animals that need extra care and attention and the animals that get left behind.

I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.

I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it.

I feel like as a generation, we sell ourselves short. I just expected more from us.

I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.

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!

I get hit on by the hottest girls ever. Oh my god, if I was a lesbian, I would be so in luck. But it's just not my thing. I've always batted for the boys' team.

I go to bed every night and the list of what I've accomplished is astounding.

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 have the world's worst pregnancies.

I just blow-dry my hair and put on mascara and lip gloss, and I'm ready to go. I really don't get long nails. They're so Edward Scissorhands.

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

I know a lot of artists say, `If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

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

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 love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to lose weight - or gain it. I'm just being.

I LOVE Taylor Swift's 1989. I think it's really cool at the moment that the production on her record is just as strong as the writing. I like the fact that the early nineties sound seems to have come back around

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

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

I may not be Einstein but I know dumb plus dumb equals you.

I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl.

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.’

I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.

I'm not that girl who's really concerned with it. I've dated a bit and it's just draining to me. If it's not going to happen natural, obviously it's going to be someone in the industry because that's the only time people ever really see me.

I'm restless and wildI fall, but I tryI need someone to understand.

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.

I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television.

I'm thankful For the blessing And the lessons that I've learned with you By my side

I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.

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 never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl. I'm just normal, and that's what I'm going to be. There's no bad girl with whips and chains that's going to come out. I think people like me because I was myself.

I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl.

In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

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.

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

I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.