Mariah Carey Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
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No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.
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It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.
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I understand people want to hold on to their roots.
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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.
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We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.
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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.
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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.
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I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.
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We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.
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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.
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When it comes to lingerie, I know what I'm doing.
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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.
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You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.
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I never thought that I would have love again, but it's amazing how the universe brings love to you.
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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!
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Everyday is a holiday with me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.
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I'm the queen of festivities, that's all I can say.