Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken
Clay Aikenis an American singer, songwriter, television personality, actor, author, politician and activist. Aiken was the 2014 Democratic nominee in the North Carolina 2nd congressional district election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth30 November 1978
CityRaleigh, NC
CountryUnited States of America
letting-go successful thinking
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.
dream mother taught
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
fall rising glory
The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
honesty who-i-am what-matters
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.
graduation special degrees
I did get a degree in special education.
opportunity careers differences
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.
growing-up pain support
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.
self-esteem teenager who-i-am
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.
notebook mother writing
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.
party thinking people
I think Washington, in general, is dysfunctional. I think it's high time we put people in Congress who were not beholden to their party, and not beholden to anything but the people who they live around and grew up around, in my case.
exercise thinking order
I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.
style tables different
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.
opportunity thinking way
Faith is not about a building or a lifestyle. You can minister in many ways besides attending services or being a preacher. And I think that that's what I feel most thankful for--that I have the opportunity to minister now, in my own way.
sex drunk people
The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.