Quotes By Mariah Carey

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

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

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

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

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

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

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'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

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.

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

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

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

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.