A moment like this - Clarkson was the first winner on the US TV show American Idol, and this was released as her first single after she performed the song on the show. In a sign of American Idol would influence the music industry, the song broke the record for the biggest jump to #1 in the history of the US Hot 100 chart when it soared 52-1 on the week of October 5, 2002. The record had been held for 37 years by the Beatles. In December 2006, this song was recorded by Leona Lewis, the winner of series 3 of the British reality show The X Factor.

Addicted - This is one of Kelly Clarkson's most intense songs. It's about a woman in the throes of addiction which is slowly destroying her, but it makes her feel amazing and gratifying when she's high. It can apply to substance addiction or to a destructive relationship. Clarkson wrote this with former Evanescence members Ben Moody and David Hodges. The trio also wrote Clarkson's hit "Because Of You."

All I ever wanted - Shortly after seeing for the first time the shiny album cover containing an airbrushed photo of her, Clarkson blogged: "It's very colorful and they have definitely photo-shopped the crap out of me but I don't care haha! whoever she is, she looks great." Kelly Clarkson told The Daily Mail February 27, 2009: "This has a soulful vibe, but it's also a throwback to old-school rock. That comes naturally to me, because I love Janis Joplin and Aerosmith."

Already gone - This song about making peace at the end of a relationship is one of three songs on All I Ever Wanted that Clarkson wrote with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder. The OneRepublic singer also penned a fourth song, "Save You" with Aimee Proal. Clarkson told The Daily Mail February 27, 2009 about her song-writing collaboration with Tedder: "Ryan really pushed me. He's an Oklahoma boy and I'm from Texas, so we hit it off straight away." This was released as the third single from American singer-songwriter Kelly Clarkson's fourth studio album All I Ever Wanted. A number of people have commented on the similarities between this song and another Ryan Tedder penned number, Beyoncé's 'Halo.' And even Clarkson herself has expressed her annoyance at how the two tunes sound so similar, especially the backing tracks. An annoyed Clarkson told Canada's CBC radio network: "Ryan and I met each other at the record label, before he was working with anyone else. He's from Oklahoma, I'm from Texas; we got along really well and had some of the same influences. We wrote about six songs together, four or five of them made the album.

Be still - Clarkson said on her record label's website that the title of this Folk-Blues number came from one of her favorite Bible verses: "Be still and know that I am here." She explained: "It's all about stopping things, slowing down to appreciate life. Everything just goes so fast, especially in this business. There's just no time to be alone for a moment of quiet. That's why I don't live in L.A. and have always lived in Texas. It's about getting away from the rat race and carving out a space for yourself."

Because of you - Clarkson wrote this about her parents' divorce when she was 6 years old. The song might be aimed at her mom. When the divorce happened, her mom was always busy and little Kelly had to make sandwiches for herself to eat. In the song, Clarkson sings about trying not to make the same mistakes her parents did, and how because of the divorce, she is scared to fall in love, in fear of going through the same pain her parents did. On her Breakaway DVD, Clarkson explains that she started writing this long before she won American Idol. Kelly was 16 when she was with friends one night and they were talking about the influence that older people/peers have on you and started writing it. She sent a demo tape of the song to producers David Hodges and Ben Moody (formerly of Evanescence), who liked the song and worked on it with her.

Behind these hazel eyes - This is a true song about Clarkson's ex boyfriend, who broke up with her and got married a month later. The song is about being hurt by someone you were once close to. The song almost didn't make it to the album. It had different lyrics, but Kelly thought of new lyrics at the last minute. The video is based heavily on Clarkson's own personal experiences. She is credited with the concept and ideas behind it; it was directed by Joseph Kahn. The video did very well on MTV's TRL, becoming a regular #1 request. Finally, fifty days later, on August 3, 2005, the video was retired from the Top 10 countdown. Clarkson holds the record for the longest stay by a female at #1 with 33 days, nearly surpassing the record previously set by The Backstreet Boys.

Breakaway - Avril Lavigne wrote the lyrics to this song, which she worked on with professional songwriters Matthew Gerrard and B. Beneate. It was intended for Lavigne's second album, Under My Skin, but she didn't think it fit the album and let Clarkson record it as a single. The song did so well that at the last minute, Clarkson's second album was renamed Breakaway and this song was included on it. (thanks, Donovan Berry - El Dorado, AR) The song is about breaking away from an old life and trying new things. Some may even consider it a song about growing up, and that could be true in some ways, but it is mostly about shedding your past and becoming a new person. The theme appealed to Clarkson, who could relate to the lyrics.

Can I have a kiss - Clarkson explained on her record label's website that this is actually about two different people in the verse and the chorus. She said: "That's the first time I ever did that. The lyrics are about something very true to me. You know how you want someone, but can't have them because they're off-limits? In the chorus, I sing that, even if you had 'em, you know you'd screw it up. You always want what you can't have. It's a funny, ironic song."

Cry - Clarkson told The Daily Mail February 27, 2009 that this waltz ballad, "is Country-influenced, but I'd never make a full Country album." She also told: "is the most personal song on the album and is about betrayal."

Chivas - Clarkson revealed to Newsweek, that she wrote this song in a bar. She added: "I actually wrote that song on a napkin. The best part is, I came home and I kept trying to remember the melody; I was pretty inebriated, and I sang it into my Mac computer. Listening to the song the next day was pretty funny."

Haunted - Clarkson explained on her record label's website about this song concerning someone she grew up with that committed suicide: "I was expressing my anger at how someone could do that. Why would you leave all these people behind feeling guilty and wondering what they could have done to prevent it? I really believe that God puts us through these situations to help others."

I forgive you - With song titles like "You Love Me," "Standing in Front of You," "You Can't Win," as well as this song, the frequency of the word "you" in Stronger's track list cannot be ignored. Speaking to MTV News, Clarkson this does not mean they are directed at one particular person, who's done her wrong. "They're all different 'you's,' " she explained. "There's no common, like, it wasn't like one, I didn't have a bad breakup or anything, it wasn't like that. No I just think life is about relationships, so I always write about all these different ones going on in my life and I don't really have a filter. So it's usually very [straightforward]."

If I can't have you - This song about a girl pursuing a man she's attracted to was written by Clarkson together with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder. The OneRepublic vocalist also contributed backing vocals to this track. Clarkson described this to PopEater as, "very like Eurythmics meets the Killers - very different for me. It's a lot sexier."

If no one will listen - This was written by singer-songwriter Keri Noble and originally featured on her 2004 album Fearless. Kelly Clarkson produced this song herself.

Impossible - Clarkson wrote this song with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder. She told Pop Justice that she enjoyed collaborating with Tedder. The American Idol winner explained: "We love all the same influences, the same bands. It was fun to get in the studio and meet a male version of me."

Irvine - This was written by Kelly Clarkson in Irvine, California while on tour. She wrote it in the bathroom of her dressing room while performing at the Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre. Clarkson told The Daily Mail (June 22, 2007): "I had reached my lowest point. I thought: 'I don't want to smile or talk about myself, or do a photo shoot. I don't want to do anything.' Four or five years straight of doing this stuff caught up on me. Everyone wanted to keep it going and I couldn't. Even though I love my job, I couldn't do it all the time." Clarkson described this on her record label's website as "the saddest song I've ever written." She added: "The song is a prayer from the lowest point in my life. There comes a time when you feel like, if He's up there, God, Allah or whatever you want to call Him, is the only one that can help me out. After that night, I know there's someone or something out there looking out for me."

I want you - In publicity materials, Clarkson commented on the song's surprising theme. "First, it's not a boy-bashing song, so that's already different for me. Plus, I wrote it, so that makes it even weirder!"

Judas - Clarkson said on her record label's website that this song about betrayal, is a reference to the biblical character Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus. She explained: "You think people are normal and good, then all of a sudden, you get blindsided."

Long shot - This was originally recorded by Katy Perry on the Glen Ballard produced unreleased 2005 album that the I Kissed a Girl singer recorded for Island Def Jam. Ballard and Perry wrote this song with the latter's former boyfriend Matt Thiessen, who is the vocalist and primary songwriter of the Christian rock band Relient K.

Miss Independent - Two other artists turned this song down before it made its way to Kelly Clarkson. The song is the brainchild of producer Rhett Lawrence, who came up with the chorus and offered it to Destiny's Child, who turned it down. He then brought it to Christina Aguilera, who added lyrics to it with songwriter Matt Morris, but decided not to use it on her Stripped album as intended, so Lawrence brought the song to Clarkson, who wrote the bridge and finished the song before recording it with Lawrence producing. Four songwriters are credited on the track: Clarkson, Lawrence, Morris and Aguilera. In this song, Clarkson sings about a girl who avoids rejection by not letting any man get too close. She takes care of herself without anyone's help and is proud of her independence, but it takes its toll emotionally. Finally, she finds love and realizes how much better life can be with another person there for support. In an interview with the TV show Access Hollywood, Clarkson admitted that she did not know Aguilera wrote this song until after it was on the album. At the time, Clarkson was still defining her image, and her look appeared influenced by Aguilera, especially when Clarkson got a nose ring.

Mr. know it all - This is the first single by American pop rock singer-songwriter Kelly Clarkson from her fifth studio album, Stronger. The song was debuted on August 30, 2011 during a live webcast hosted by Clarkson on her official website. During her Livestream chat Clarkson discussed why the song was chosen as the album's lead single. "We picked 'Mr. Know It All' because it was unlike any song that, really, I've ever come out with," she said. "Secondly, just because it's very different from a first single for me. Usually we go with an anthem, guitar-driven song. This is very different, and I was really into it… It's just super sassy and it sets up the album nicely. The whole theme is very empowering." The empowering song finds Kelly warning her guy he might think he's got it all figured out, but "Baby, you don't know a thing about me." She told Entertainment Weekly: "It's everything I am as a woman and a singer. I love telling men off!" Clarkson described the song to Ryan Seacrest as different from any of her other singles because the message is not just about relationships. The singer added that though she has a list of people that have brought her down, the song is also about ignorant people who think they know everything about someone. When the song debuted at #18 on the Hot 100, Clarkson became the first artist to achieve Top 20 hits on the single charts with both male and female honorifics. ("Miss Independent" previously peaked at #9 in 2003).

My life would suck without you - The song deals with a woman in a relationship with a dysfunctional man. However she can't let go as, "My life would suck without you." On March 11, 2009, Clarkson performed the song on American Idol which she won in the show's first season. When Ryan Seacrest asked her if the song was about a specific person, she said it wasn't, and added: "I'm not in a relationship right now, but I love the dynamic of the message: You're so screwed up, but you're perfect for each other. I probably will be like that in a relationship someday." Clarkson told The Daily Mail February 27, 2009: "A lot of my songs seem to be about hating guys, so this is my attempt at not being a boy-basher." Clarkson told Scotland On Sunday that when Dr Luke and Max Martin first sent her this tune, "it was a very different song at first – the story itself didn't really match me. They rewrote it to be more suitable for me. As a writer myself, sometimes it's very awkward to have to portray a song in a way you wouldn't normally do it, so for them to go away and tailor the song specifically for me was really cool. We made it a non-boy-bashing song, as opposed to the songs I usually do." This came out on top in Time Magazine's list of Best Songs of 2009.

Never again - Clarkson wrote this song in 2005 about an ex-boyfriend. The lyrics are quite hateful toward him and the girl he is seeing, as Clarkson calls her a "trophy wife" and hoping her finger turns green from the ring. Although his new girlfriend is naive enough to trust him, she's lost her trust in him completely. (thanks, Amber - mocksville, NC) In an interview with MTV News, Kelly Clarkson said, "I had somebody at my label say they didn't like it because it was too Pat Benatar. I was like, 'Now I really like it! I love her, and what's wrong with you?'" (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England) David Kahne produced this track. He also worked on Paul McCartney's 2007 album Memory Almost Full. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France) Though this song tells of a relationship gone sour, the subject matter is not necessarily what the listener may think. Clarkson explained on her record label's website: "It's not really a boyfriend-girlfriend thing. It's more about trusting and putting your faith in someone and getting let down."

Save you - This mid-tempo rock ballad is a demo from the now-disbanded group Gone 'Til November. Singer-songwriter Aimèe Proal, who fronted Gone 'Til November, co-wrote the song with One Republic's Ryan Tedder. Tedder told Digital Spy that this song about a girl escaping from a lover with a self-destructive streak, features an experimental bridge inspired by Mozart.

Since U been gone - Clarkson (from Entertainment Weekly, September 2, 2005): "Hazel Eyes is about the dipstick who completely screwed up and now is unhappy and you're happy. And then you're just shouting praises at the fact that he's miserable in Since U Been Gone." The music video for this song is about a girl going into her ex-boyfriend's house and destroying everything. It's what everyone wants to do in that situation but isn't crazy enough to do it. This song almost didn't make it onto the Breakaway album; when Clarkson heard the first, acoustic version of the song, she didn't like it. It wasn't until it was given a rocking treatment that she warmed to the song.

Sober - Clarkson said on her record label's website that this song is about survival, knowing what to do when something goes wrong. She explained: "It's not easy getting over whatever your addiction may be. The whole point of that song is, the temptation is there, but I'm not going to give in to it."

Walk away - In this song, Clarkson is letting her boyfriend know that he let her down by not committing to the relationship. She tells him that if he can't commit to her, he should just walk away.

What doesn't kill you [Stronger] - Speaking to MTV News prior to the song's release, Clarkson said the inspiring dance anthem reminded her of one of her own all-time favorites. "That'll be the one [that's] kinda like 'Since U Be Gone,' [with] people jumping up and down to [it], and it's just kind of really inspiring, so I can't wait to perform that one," she said. AOL Music asked Clarkson why she recorded so many kiss-off songs? She replied: "It's not just guys. I just like telling people off if I don't like them. Not in a mean way. I'm just like my mother; I have no filter. I like that! I want people around me like that. There's going to be so much miscommunication if you don't say what you think and say what you feel. Life would be a lot easier if everyone did that."

Whyyawannabringmedown - This was originally recorded by the band Aranda. It was written by former Color Me Badd member Sam Watters, his songwriting partner Louis Biancaniello, and Dameon Aranda, the lead guitarist/vocalist of Aranda. The trio also penned the title track on All I Ever Wanted. In publicity materials Clarkson described this as having a "kind of a punk-British Invasion sound." Clarkson said on her website that recording this song was the album's turning point. She explained: "I sang that song through I don't know how many times, just because I was having so much fun. It was new and it was fresh and it didn't sound like anything on the radio. And after that, I went to my manager and said that I wanted to make a really fun, feisty album, and just wanted to go all the way with every song."

Why don't you try - The American Singer-Songwriter Eric Hutchinson penned the song and Clarkson first heard it when he was opening for her in Australia. She recalled to AOL Music: "I was in my dressing room and all of a sudden I heard this song. I was like, what is he singing! And I ran out of the dressing room – I looked like a hot mess! I was in the middle of getting my hair and make-up done. He had just surprised the audience with a new song. He came off the stage and I was like, you need to write me a song like that! And instead, he gave me that song so I could have it on my album. It's a very relatable song to me."

Yeah - Clarkson (from her record label's website): "The song is about this guy I was dating, who was so cool, but wasn't able to put up with me being in the public eye all the time. I want a real man, not someone who's going to walk around on eggshells and be a 'yes' person. I want someone to let me know if they're happy, mad or sad."

You can't win - Kelly Clarkson penned the song when she was touring her previous album, All I Ever Wanted. She explained the song's meaning: "I wrote the song about having a really hard time with not even just people I was working with but just media, and the portrayal of All I Ever Wanted, fans and friends and family… everybody was like, you can't win. If you're the girl next door it's like 'boring', or if you're wild and crazy it's like 'oh you need to go to rehab'. Or people will be like 'Oh, you're gay, right?', and I'm like 'well, no', but then it's like 'if you're straight, why aren't you married?', so it's like I can't win either way! It's that whole thing of I'm never gonna please you, so I'm going to stop trying." Clarkson wrote the song in Germany whilst her make up artist was trying to get her ready for one of her gigs. She recalled to SameSame.com.au: "I wrote it during hair and make-up, and so she was trying to do stuff and I was like 'I need to go to the bathroom and record this in Garageband or I'm gonna forget the melody!' so I had to go and do it; I always do that to her and she gets pissed off, but I can't help it! You get inspired when you get inspired!"

You love me - This is Kelly Clarkson's favorite track on Stronger as it came out of a "really crap situation." She explained: "It was just a really bad day, one of the worst ever; don't think I'll have a bad one like that again. I think it's great that being an artist you can take a bad day like that and almost use it as therapy to get it out and I think a lot of people will relate to this song. The whole idea is when people are like 'I love you, but this is what you need to change about yourself and this is what's not good about you,' and it's like 'Wow I think you're highly confused about the definition of love.' The whole song is like, 'your love is like a punch in the face.' It's very Prince, Tina Turner, pop which I love."