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.'
- Mariah Carey
If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.
- Mariah Carey
Never, never listen to anybody that tries to discourage you...
- Mariah Carey
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!
- Mariah Carey
I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.
- Mariah Carey
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.
- Mariah Carey
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.
- Mariah Carey
Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
- Mariah Carey
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.
- Mariah Carey
I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.
- Mariah Carey
It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
- Mariah Carey
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.
- Mariah Carey
In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.
- Mariah Carey
I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.
- Mariah Carey
My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.
- Mariah Carey
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.
- Mariah Carey
There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!
- Mariah Carey
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.
- Mariah Carey
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.
- Mariah Carey
Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.
- Mariah Carey
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
- Mariah Carey
All I want for Christmas is you.
- Mariah Carey
I look at this moment as an incredible blessing. It's part of my struggle. It's made me a stronger person and made me appreciate this.
- Mariah Carey
I've been born again.
- Mariah Carey
I feel like it was just timing and that for the first time, I feel like this is an expression of who I am.
- Mariah Carey
I don't know that it's actually sunken in yet.
- Mariah Carey
I'm inconsolable at the present time, I was a very good friend of Jordan, he was probably the greatest basketball player this country has ever seen. We will never see his like again.
- Mariah Carey
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.
- Mariah Carey
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.
- Mariah Carey
Bring me olives and morsels and I'll be happy.
- Mariah Carey
This is an incredible night. I never expected to be standing here.
- Mariah Carey
People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.
- Mariah Carey
I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.
- Mariah Carey
I used to play poker with my sister. But I think my low-cut dress put some of the guys off.
- Mariah Carey
But there is nothing going on. That's the last time I saw him.
- Mariah Carey
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
- Mariah Carey
This country is fabulous, I always have a good time here - and I plan to move to London soon.
- Mariah Carey
