Kelly Clarkson is driven by criticism.
Kelly Clarkson in Redbook
The 35-year-old singer admits she will "move a mountain" just to prove people wrong and always wants to do things her way.
She said: "I used to work with someone who was so mean to me.
"One day I disagreed about something they thought I couldn't do, and they go, 'Oh, you're a sinking ship.' I was like, 'You know what? If this ship sinks, you can damn well know that I was driving it!'
"That person didn't realise that if you say I can't do something, I will move a mountain just to prove you wrong."
The 'Breakaway' singer is currently preparing to be a coach on 'The Voice' but she's not bothered about one of her acts winning, she just wants to find some talented people and help them get their big break.
She told the new issue of Redbook magazine: "I've already warned both Adam [Levine] and Blake [Shelton] that winning is not my biggest concern. I want to find someone who has incredible talent and really work with that person. It would be amazing to look back in a decade and see this artist have a huge, successful career that I was a part of."
Kelly - who is stepmother to Savannah, 16, and 11-year-old Seth, and has River, three, and 19-month-old Remington with husband Brandon Blackstock - admitted her latest album, 'Meaning of Life', finally sees her in the place musically where she's always dreamed of being.
She said of the record: "When my mom heard it, she was like, 'Now this is the music I thought you were going to make when you were a kid.'
"These are the kind of soulful, bluesy songs I love. You have to have gone through some stuff in life in order to translate that emotion into them...
"Not to poo-poo on all my other records, because they're all me too, but this is the sound of powerful women like Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Houston. They inspired me as a little girl who had nothing but thought maybe I could be something one day."
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