Mariah Carey Quotes

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but ... can't control the world.

Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

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.

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

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

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

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

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

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

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.

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

There's an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away.

Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion.

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.

Everyday is a holiday with me.

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.

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

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

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

I really rebel against authority.

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.

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.

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

Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

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

Losing my mind From this hollow in my heart

Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.

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

Especially since I stared studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment.

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

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].

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.