Mariah Carey Quotes

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 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 marvelled at it.

Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.

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

I 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'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.

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

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.

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

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?

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

Everybody out there, don't ever 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.

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 can make it through the rain,
I can stand up once again,
on my own, and I know,
that I'm strong enough to mend,
and every time I feel afraid
I hold tighter to my faith,
and I live one more day
and I make it through the rain.

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

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

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

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

I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.

I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true.

See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.

I've been working on my craft for a long time. People never want to let go of the whole 'Glitter,' ... I'm like, 'It's eight years later, people. Let's move on.

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 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.

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.

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

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

Everyday is a holiday with me.

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.

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

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.

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

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

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.

Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.

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 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.

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 think one of the reasons I pushed myself so hard and worked so hard is because I never felt special.

I'm so thankful that I've received The answer that heaven has sent down to me You treated me kind Sweet destiny And I'll be eternally grateful

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.

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

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

So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.

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.

I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

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.

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

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

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.

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.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

I can still count on one hand the number of men I`ve slept with.

People are like, 'What is your whole obsession with butterflies?' I'm like, 'I'm not obsessed. I like them. Can't anybody like something?'

Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.

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

I've been blessed to live my dream more than half my life, so I want help give that back to someone else.

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

I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system..

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.

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

Losing my mind From this hollow in my heart

Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

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.

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

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

I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never have time to write or sing.

I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.

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

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].

You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.

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

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

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.

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

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.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

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

I work myself into the ground.

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.

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

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

We're all a little wacko sometimes, and if we think we're not, maybe we are more than we know.

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