Kelly Clarkson Quotes

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

My music has always been my solo project.

You need to be your own individual.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I don't live on other people's terms.

I'm Thalia on my own.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

I do what I do; I can't control who thinks what.