The life of a pop star - as you may have imagined - is different from yours and mine.

"I got to cut in line at the DMV," exults Clay Aiken.

"Well, Steven Tyler kissed me," says Kelly Clarkson, trumping him on the phone from Los Angeles, where the two "American Idol" stars are rehearsing for their joint concert tour.

They will perform at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus March 10.

The hugely popular Fox talent show catapulted the two singers from karaoke to platinum status.

Both say that sudden stardom hasn't gone to their heads.

"I joke with friends all the time that I'm supposed to be living this glamorous life," says Aiken, 23, a native of Raleigh, N.C. "But every night I'm sitting at home in my pajamas watching TiVo and ordering takeout."

Clarkson, 21, from Burleson, Texas, confesses that at big industry functions, such as the Grammys, she just tries to smile and act polite.