Mariah Carey Quotes

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

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 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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.