Mariah Carey Quotes

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.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion.

Everybody Out There....Dont take ANYBODY for granted.Cause you never know when you might lose them,and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

I look around and see the things I have, and I remember not having them. That is one thing that keeps me grounded. I'm definitely the same person I was. . . . I never lose me, I never lose the real person.

I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

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.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

You can't live with regrets. It's about the journey

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

Don't you know that you're blowing my mind? What you do to me I can't describe. Baby, I can't hold back anymore. I just can't conceal it. You're the one I really adore.

I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular

I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

There's a hero, If you look inside your heart

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.

Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero.

I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

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.

True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water.

If two people want to get married, it’s their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness.

I didn't have a strong male figure in my life on a day-to-day basis. So I think that whole [marriage] situation, a lot of it stems from a place where I was out there alone as a really and I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me.

I really rebel against authority.

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!

We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it.

I know you're shining down on me from Heaven, like so many friends we've lost along the way. And I know eventually we'll be together, one sweet day.

It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings.

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.

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I'd never be, I'd never be the same.

She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity.

After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.

Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

The fans never send me crazy things. They send me things that they put so much time and effort into making, and they are so amazing. You have to see them!

I'm not great at putting my hair into a bun, but I'll do it if I have to.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.

In any big spectacular, it's really difficult to have enough voices to cover all the vocal parts. To give the audience the complete experience they're expecting, there is some reinforcement, some playback that everybody's hearing. Sometimes it's background vocals, but sometimes it will be actually vocal tracks. It's so hard to ensure, with no safety net ... you're not gonna get another shot at it, you have to have stability. I think it's very naïve of a lot of people to think that when you see someone open their mouth, they're really singing.