Mariah Carey
Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.Collection: Diet
Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime.Collection: Christmas
My fans have made all my career moments special for me. They are the ones that have gotten me through every single thing - good times and bad, they are who I go to and lean on. I am very thankful for that.Collection: Good
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.Collection: Music
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.'Collection: Strength
I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas 'cause I want to give everyone else their presents.Collection: Christmas
There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!
I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.
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.
Time is irrelevant to me. I never wear a watch.
I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.
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!
My brother and sister had a much worse childhood, I think, because they were older, and they had to deal with a lot more racism because they grew up in the '70s and I grew up more in the '80s. So they had to deal with crosses being burned on their lawn and their dogs being poisoned.
Trust is not very easy for me at all. I want to be a trusting person, but I've been bruised so many times - not to sound woe-is-me about my life.
Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.
If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.
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.
I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it's just like, Why? Why do that?
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.
Stardom is a magical yet freakish situation at times. It's a cliche but very true that at times, you feel so alone, even when you're surrounded by so many people.
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.
I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.
I've seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine.
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 really rebel against authority.
Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
A lot of rappers don't have to go through what I had to go through as a singer. I was always in a bubble that they put me in, but I was always punching out. It was a tough line to walk.
I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.
You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.
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.
I understand people want to hold on to their roots.
In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.
I love the grimiest rappers in the world. That's my favorite.
People are like, 'What is your whole obsession with butterflies?' I'm like, 'I'm not obsessed. I like them. Can't anybody like something?'
I'm actually very loyal, to my detriment.
I started singing when I started talking.
Marilyn Monroe Productions was the first female-owned production company in Hollywood. She paved the way for women in Hollywood, and every single woman owes something to her for that, whether they agree with her image or not.
Being biracial is so much a part of who I am that it's almost, 'Let it go already.' It's intrinsic to me. I think a lot of my fans relate to me because they felt different.
I think that for me, personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.
I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.
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 was a reader as a child, believe it or not.
I don't think there were great beauty trends in the '90s - I was just doing my own thing.
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.
I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.
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.
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.