Mariah carey quotes

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.

I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from 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 don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

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.

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

There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are.

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

I never thought that I would have love again, but it's amazing how the universe brings love to you.

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Losing my mind From this hollow in my heart

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

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.

It seems as though I've always been,somebody outside looking in,well, here I am for all of them to bleed,but they can't take my heart from me,and they can't bring me to my knees,they'll never know the real me.

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

You really have to look inside yourself to find your inner strength.

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

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

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

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

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.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

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

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 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'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.

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

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.

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!

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

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Everyday is a holiday with me.

If you just believe in me. I will love you endlessly.

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

Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.

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.

Lord knows Dreams are hard to follow But don't let anyone Tear them away Hold on There will be tomorrow In time you'll find the way And then a hero comes along With the strength to carry on And you cast your fears aside And you know you can survive So when you feel like hope is gone Look inside you and be strong And you'll finally see the truth That a hero lies in you

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.

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

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.

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

I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

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?

To quote Frank Sinatra, "Regrets, I've had a few / But then again, too few to mention."

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

I still 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.

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

Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion.

I love "Frosty the Snowman." My family and I like to go on a sleigh ride with a two-horse sleigh in Aspen, so we all scream different songs at the top of our lungs. I hope it doesn't scare the horses.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

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 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 really rebel against authority.

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.

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

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 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.

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 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.

You look at me and see the girl,who lives inside the golden world,but don't believe, that's all there is to see,you'll never know the real 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'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

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.

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

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.

Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.

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.

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.

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

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

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.