Do Not Ask Kelly Clarkson To Baby-Sit Your Children

Do you ever watch "American Idol" now?
Yeah. Whenever I can catch it. They always have the show on when I can't watch it. I'm either on tour or I'm in Europe. But I love watching it.

Do you ever vote?
No. I never even voted for myself.

You never voted for yourself? Why not?
I thought it was such bad karma. And I'm kind of just lazy.

Still friends with Clay Aiken?
Yeah.

Do you ever baby-sit for him?
Oh, my God. First of all, Clay would know better than to have me baby-sit his child.

Are you bad with kids?
I'm not, like, bad with them. I'm awesome at the aunt thing. I'll hang out with my oldest; out of all my nieces and nephews, the nephew is the oldest, he's 7. But I'm not really good with the whole baby thing. I don't do the diaper thing.

A lot of your songs are about how bad boys are.
Half of them are, like, boy bashing. The other half are from other people and their weird relationships. I've had really great boyfriends, actually. I've just had one really crappy one.

Just one?
I've only had one bad boyfriend, and I happen to write music about it.

Does this one bad boyfriend know these songs are about him?
I'm pretty sure that's apparent, yeah. You're dating a creative person, it's obviously going to come out in my work. I don't think he cares, honestly.

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