Transcript from the ET video - 12/01/08:
"The first time I did it I was apprehensive for a number of reasons: 1. Because I wasn't sure I could pull it off; 2. I had never, in 5 years, been in a situation where I was part of a team, necessarily.
When you are touring and doing concerts on your own you're the only person on stage and that was what kinda drew me back to it. I think when people reach a point in their career where they are doing what they love to do, which is what everyone here is doing, everyone is so much more happier and easier to get along with. These are the people who are at the top of their game. They are on Broadway, in a Tony award winning musical. It was been just easy to work with them. I have loved everybody. It's been kinda like a family thing, ya know?
I mean having a child now, I wanted to be in a place where I could work and not be moving around. I had a Christmas tour for the last four years, so I was in a different city every single night, and this is an opportunity to do something I like to do and that was fun...to be working and still be in the same place.
You know, spend the 1st Christmas with Parker and not be in a different city every night.
I can get him quiet pretty easily. But that's because I don't mind walking around with him. You know, I don't know that there is anything that I do better than Jaymes necessarily. I don't have a problem with diapers or any of that stuff. It doesn't bother me. It was probably a week before she had to change a diaper at all. That doesn't bother me. It's still a rhythm. You have to get into it and try to find out what he wants.
I'm trying to be the stubborn one who doesn't always let him cry and let him get what he wants, but he's still young, so we kinda, he's, he owns us right now.
This was a big year for you…Parker was born and you made the big announcement. How have things been since then?
Interestingly enough, very normal. I think that we have been not necessarily pleasantly surprised. I wouldn't call it an announcement, or anything, we just avoided discussing things before and now said fine you do it how the press would like to have it done, to be sensationalized.
It has been very natural. I think that we have been very surprised. Now that first week I was terrified to come out here on stage. That first Friday, I was thinking, okay, just get ready for your bow, you're gonna get booed. I was totally ready without question.
It has helped people within my life who are having trouble with it, too. I think when you have an openness about it...I'm from the South, we don't talk about our problems, we sweep them under the rug, when you don't have the opportunity to do that anymore, it makes it a little more easy to deal with. There is no opportunity for denial, you can just deal with it.
Things have been quiet. I hate to admit it...to people who discussed it with me and gave me the idea, but those people were kinda right. It's been refreshing. You can't predict anything that's gonna happen in your life."
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Clay Aiken on his son's surgery.
"He was pretty sick for awhile. We didn't know how bad it was."
