Clay Aiken recently interviewed with the Houston Chronicle, and it turns out he's kind of hilarious. Check out these excerpts:
People always come up to me and say, 'My grandmother's your biggest fan.' There's a misconception among these ladies that I'm cool and hip and now. And they think that by liking me, it makes them cool and hip and now. But shhh. We aren't going to tell them that I'm not cool and hip at all.
Q: What's the most unique gift you've received from a fan?
A: You mean turkey-baster unique? Like that? Because I've gotten one of those. Let's just let you sit on that for a minute. (Brief pause.) And there it is.
Q: Do you hear anything on Top 40 radio that you can relate to?
A: This Rihanna girl - she's got a great voice. I really think she deserves to be where she is ... . (But) what happened to Whitney Houston on the radio? Not literally - let's not go there - but what happened to that kind of stuff on Top 40? I think nowadays radio doesn't care how good someone sings. They just care whether or not people can fake having sex while standing up dancing to it. That's all they want.
Q: What one record would people be surprised to find in your collection?
A: My brother's a Marine, and he's into this group called Breaking Benjamin. I don't know much about them, but I own that. I wanted to kind of see what he was listening to. There's a song called Diary of Jane that I think is pretty good. Breaking Benjamin is going to kill themselves because they got mentioned in the same article (as) Clay Aiken. There goes the rep.
Q: Will we ever see you bring SexyBack?
A: I'm actually going to do - God help me for saying this - with the Houston Symphony, a little bit of SexyBack.
