There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!
Mariah Carey
Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime.
Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.
Time is irrelevant to me. I never wear a watch.
You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'
Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.
This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!
Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.
My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.
You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.
Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.
If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.
I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.
Marilyn Monroe Productions was the first female-owned production company in Hollywood. She paved the way for women in Hollywood, and every single woman owes something to her for that, whether they agree with her image or not.
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.
I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.
I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.
One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.
I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.
I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas 'cause I want to give everyone else their presents.
I'm not vain, I'm insecure.
I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it's just like, Why? Why do that?
I never thought that I would have love again, but it's amazing how the universe brings love to you.
In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.
I'm actually really good at Balderdash, and no one wants to play that game with me. Especially the movies category; I don't want to give away my secrets, but I am pretty good at that category.
I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.
Being biracial is so much a part of who I am that it's almost, 'Let it go already.' It's intrinsic to me. I think a lot of my fans relate to me because they felt different.
Trust is not very easy for me at all. I want to be a trusting person, but I've been bruised so many times - not to sound woe-is-me about my life.
I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.
My fans have made all my career moments special for me. They are the ones that have gotten me through every single thing - good times and bad, they are who I go to and lean on. I am very thankful for that.
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.
I arrange flowers in my spare time. Well, when I have spare time, that is.
I think that for me, personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.
I do all of my own stunts in videos. The Jet Ski scenes, the fight scenes, all of them!
Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.
I wrote my own anthem: it's called 'Mariah's Theme.' It's on the 'Rainbow' album from '99. Back in the day.
I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
Some of us talk about other people and what they do and la la la. But I'm not that person.
I've seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine.
I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.
Stardom is a magical yet freakish situation at times. It's a cliche but very true that at times, you feel so alone, even when you're surrounded by so many people.
I could do my own nails... I went to beauty school in the 11th grade. But why would I do that now?
I think the greatest gift to me is that I can express myself in songs. It helps me get through some of the hardest times of my life. It also helps me celebrate some of the best times.
I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.
If you're not wearing a lot of makeup, you don't have to take a lot of it off. So, my goal is to wear the least amount of makeup possible so I don't have to steam my face and take it all off.
