Mariah Carey Quotes

I have memories of Australia that I'll just never ever get over

The minute I started addressing my feelings, I actually came out of very negative situations.

I can do a reddish-brown or brown lip, but not a bright red. I just don't look good in it. Over the years you learn certain things that don't look good on you, and that's one of them for me.

Apparently I don't do stairs, I won't walk on carpet and I refuse to walk on grass. How do I do to get around, hover?

I'm stuck in 7th grade & I just keep getting let back

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don't let go! You can make it, make it happen

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

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.

I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.

I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marveled at it.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.

I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record.

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

Right now Jack lives with me. Jack is my Jack Russell. I also have a Yorkie named Ginger, but Jack and Ginger can't be in the same place at the same time because she is very jealous. Even if Jack's not in the same state, she would growl if she heard his name.

Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them.

I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

I never thought that I would have love again, but it's amazing how the universe brings love to you.

I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.

I love "Frosty the Snowman." My family and I like to go on a sleigh ride with a two-horse sleigh in Aspen, so we all scream different songs at the top of our lungs. I hope it doesn't scare the horses.

Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

I'm not for the villains, I'm only for the princesses. I mean it's fun to have Jafar [Aladdin cartoon villain] or whatever; I didn't even remember their names 'cause they're not important to me.

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

Everyday is a holiday with me.

To quote Frank Sinatra, "Regrets, I've had a few / But then again, too few to mention."

If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.

I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me.

I don't want a boyfriend just for the sake of it. I don't trust most people out there. There's too much at risk and I don't need to be a notch on somebody's bedpost. I'll flirt with you all night long, but then it's buh, bye!

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.

You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.

I'm the queen of festivities, that's all I can say.

Losing my mind From this hollow in my heart

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.