Quotes By Mariah Carey

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

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.