Mariah Carey Quotes
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I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.
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I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.
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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.
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She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity.
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I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not vain, I'm insecure.
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I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.
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If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.
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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.
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People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.
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Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.
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There's a hero, If you look inside your heart...
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Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.
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Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
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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.