Kelly Clarkson in her candid interview with Blender magazine, August 2007 issue.

On her face-to-face meeting with music exec Clive Davis:
"It was nice. It was just the two of us, and his dog. I was like, 'I don't know you very well, and I am not a bulls***. I get you don't like the album. You're 80; you're not supposed to like my album.' I said, 'Clive, I'm going to make tons of albums. It doesn't have to be mainstream every time. Then he kept bringing up people he's worked with. 'You're a Whitney! You're a Mariah!' First of all, Mariah writes a lot of her stuff. Secondly, I don't want a career like either of those singers. That's why it's hard for us to make an album. You don't know me! You don't know what I like, and you don't know what my fans like."