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As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.Collection: Mary
When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.Collection: Mary
I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.Collection: Mary
If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'Collection: Mary
I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.Collection: Mary
This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.Collection: Mary
When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.Collection: Mary
People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment.Collection: Mary
I cannot save the world; that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J. Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it, too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.Collection: Mary
Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not.Collection: Mary
I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.Collection: Mary
From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.Collection: Mary
Larry David makes me laugh.Collection: Mary
When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.Collection: Mary
I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.Collection: Mary
It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.Collection: Mary
I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.Collection: Mary
When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.Collection: Mary
I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way.Collection: Mary
Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35.Collection: Mary
In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.Collection: Mary
I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them.Collection: Mary
I would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders.Collection: Mary
I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.Collection: Mary
I think music is the highest form of healing.Collection: Mary
It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.Collection: Mary
I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.Collection: Mary
I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me.Collection: Mary
The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it.Collection: Mary
I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.Collection: Mary
I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is.Collection: Mary
I try not to eat cakes, but sugar screams my name.Collection: Mary
What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing.Collection: Mary
If I write for beauty and truth, the songs will find their way to me. Then, it's the songs that speak to the audience, and they can become part of the tribe that is into what I do.Collection: Mary
When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus.Collection: Mary
I feel as though I came to music with something to say. It wasn't like that when I was younger. I didn't have the ability to articulate what it was I wanted to say.Collection: Mary
I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it.Collection: Mary
I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.Collection: Mary
The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs.Collection: Mary
A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.Collection: Mary
There's a lot of vulnerability in songs - I'm not talking about pop songs - from people that are in the art of songwriting more than the commercial enterprise of it.Collection: Mary
Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.Collection: Mary
I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my entire life to it. I have to give it a hundred percent.Collection: Mary
People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able to consume the entire song - not just the external; they go inside.Collection: Mary
Songs have been my greatest teachers and continue to be really important in my life.Collection: Mary
I got issues. Boy, have I got issues.Collection: Mary
I guess I find it easier to talk when I have a guitar in front of me.Collection: Mary
I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other side. Irish and French, that's what I feel. When you're young, it doesn't matter so much, but as you get older, I would suspect part of the ageing process is to wonder about your ancestors - who were they? What were their lives like?Collection: Mary
If I start tracing, I bet I will find a writer in my family tree.Collection: Mary