Quotes By Mary J. Blige

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

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.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

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 first album is playful.

I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

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'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

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

Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

I do consider myself part of black history.

You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.

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.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

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

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself.

I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

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

I listen to gospel music.

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.