Quotes By Mary J. Blige

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.

I've never been a mean person.

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.

When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.

I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

I do consider myself part of black history.

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I listen to gospel music.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.