100+ Mariah Carey Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: - "Q&A WITH MARIAH CAREY : 'My Whole Life I've Been Going for This Goal'". Interview with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. November 23, 1993.

Topics: Hurt, Giving, Feelings, Sometimes It Hurts

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

Topics: Butterfly, Following

I'm the queen of festivities, that's all I can say.

Topics: Queens, Festivities

I can make it through the rain, I can stand up once again, on my own, and I know, that I'm strong enough to mend, and every time I feel afraid I hold tighter to my faith, and I live one more day and I make it through the rain.

Topics: Strong, Rain, Enough, One More Day

True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water.

Topics: Smart, Water, Now And Then

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.

Topics: Pregnancy, Wonderful, Easy

I'm not for the villains, I'm only for the princesses. I mean it's fun to have Jafar [Aladdin cartoon villain] or whatever; I didn't even remember their names 'cause they're not important to me.

Topics: Fun, Princess, Mean

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!

source: - Mariah Carey's remarks at Madison Square Garden, 1995.

Topics: Dream, Determination, Giving Up, Don't Ever Give Up

I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.

Topics: Waiting, Lines, Entity, Waiting In Line

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.

Topics: Past, Careers, Goal

I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].

Topics: Artist, Collaboration, Done, Caliber

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

Topics: Talking, Grace, Singing, Saving Grace

I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

Topics: Nice, Trying, Being Nice

I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

Topics: Real, Thinking, Who I Am

If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen.

source: - Song: Make It Happen, Album: Emotions, 1991

Topics: Inspirational, Believe, Famous Motivational, If You Believe In Yourself

After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.

Topics: Rainbow, Storm, Looks

It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.

Topics: Adventure, Roller Coaster, Coasters

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

source: - "Mariah Wins at Violence-Free Vibe Awards" by Solvej Schou, www.washingtonpost.com. November 13, 2005.

Topics: Giving Up, Giving, Don't Ever Give Up

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.

Topics: Sometimes, Knows, I Can

You can't live with regrets. It's about the journey

Topics: Regret, Journey

Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me.

source: - Song: Can't Take That Away, Album: Rainbow, 1999

Topics: Confidence, Light, Shining

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

Topics: Positive Thinking, Tunnels, Light, End Of The Tunnel, Light At The End Of The Tunnel

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

Topics: Order, Appreciate, Lessons, Learning Lessons

Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.

Topics: Trying, Discouraging

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

Topics: Thinking, Knows

No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.

Topics: Stress, Fighting, Leaving, No Stress

If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero.

Topics: Believe, Hero, Looks, Look Inside Yourself

Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

source: - Song: Triumphant

Topics: Rope, Ems, Toes

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

Topics: Inspirational, Giving, Laughing

You really have to look inside yourself to find your inner strength.

Topics: Inner Strength, Looks, Look Inside Yourself

We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.

Topics: Perfect, Humans, Expected

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

Topics: Writing, People, Know Me

I'm not great at putting my hair into a bun, but I'll do it if I have to.

source: - "Mariah Carey on Her New MAC Lipstick and How She Lives Every Day Like It's a Holiday". Interview with Glam Belleza Latine, www.glamour.com. November 23, 2015.

Topics: Hair, Buns, Ifs

There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are.

source: - Song: Hero, Album: Music Box, 1993

Topics: Inspirational, Hero, Heart

I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system.

source: - The Interview magazine, www.irishexaminer.com.

Topics: Fighting, Rocks, Perfect

Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

source: - Song: Hero, Album: Music Box, 1993

Topics: Motivational, Dream, Tears

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Insecure, Vain

If you just believe in me. I will love you endlessly.

source: - Song: Anytime You Need a Friend, Album: Music Box, 1993

Topics: Believe, Love You, Unconditional Love

Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion.

source: - Song: It's Like That, Album: The Emancipation of Mimi, 2005

Topics: Ashes, Chickens, Lotion

Lord knows Dreams are hard to follow But don't let anyone Tear them away Hold on There will be tomorrow In time you'll find the way And then a hero comes along With the strength to carry on And you cast your fears aside And you know you can survive So when you feel like hope is gone Look inside you and be strong And you'll finally see the truth That a hero lies in you

source: - Song: Hero

Topics: Dream, Strong, Lying

If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don't let go! You can make it, make it happen

source: - Song: Make It Happen, Album: Emotions, 1991

Topics: Letting Go, Believe, Soul, Make It Happen, Don't Let Go

We're all a little wacko sometimes, and if we think we're not, maybe we are more than we know.

source: - "Mariah Carey: 'I'm not wacko'". www.cnn.com. December 20, 2002.

Topics: Thinking, Littles, Sometimes

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

Topics: Inspiring, People, Sound, Collaborating

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

source: - "Q&A With Mariah Carey : 'my Whole Life I've Been Going for This Goal'". Interview with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. November 23, 1993.

Topics: Moving, Records, Want

Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.

source: - Song: Can't Let Go, Album: Emotions, 1991

Topics: Letting Go, Dream, Fall, Falling For You, Can't Let Go

Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.

source: - Song: When I Saw You, Album: Daydream, 1995

Topics: Once In A Lifetime, Tides, Time Love

I never thought that I would have love again, but it's amazing how the universe brings love to you.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Universe

There's an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away.

source: - Song: Hero, Album: Music Box, 1993

Topics: Soul, Sorrow, Answers

It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

Topics: Music, Hands, Long, Long Road

If two people want to get married, it’s their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness.

source: - "Mariah, Unwrapped". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. December 13, 2010.

Topics: Gay, Pursuit Of Happiness, Two, Prerogative

Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.

Topics: Attitude, Taken, Artist, Tortured Artists

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

Topics: Princess, Who I Am, Has Beens

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

Topics: Teacher, Believe, Writing

I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.

Topics: Shoes, Feet, Flats, Flat Shoes

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

Topics: Love You, Wigs, Machines, Atm, Atm Machines

You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but ... can't control the world.

Topics: Fighting, People, World

I don't want a boyfriend just for the sake of it. I don't trust most people out there. There's too much at risk and I don't need to be a notch on somebody's bedpost. I'll flirt with you all night long, but then it's buh, bye!

Topics: Flirting, Night, Bye, Wanting A Boyfriend

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.

Topics: Voice, Giving, One Day

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

Topics: Lucky, Really Happy, Fortunate

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.

source: - "The X Factor - Mariah Carey night - LIVE!!!" by Heidi Stephens, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2008.

Topics: Funny, Money, Stupid, Really Stupid, Stupidest

I think one of the reasons I pushed myself so hard and worked so hard is because I never felt special.

Topics: Thinking, Special, Reason

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.

Topics: Hygiene, Brain, Half

Everyday is a holiday with me.

source: - "Mariah Carey on Her New MAC Lipstick and How She Lives Every Day Like It's a Holiday". Interview with Glam Belleza Latina, www.glamour.com. November 23, 2015.

Topics: Holiday, Everyday

I really rebel against authority.

source: - "Mariah Carey: 'I try not to be a jerk. I really do'" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

Topics: Rebel, Authority

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

Topics: Mother, Father, Black, Venezuelans

In any big spectacular, it's really difficult to have enough voices to cover all the vocal parts. To give the audience the complete experience they're expecting, there is some reinforcement, some playback that everybody's hearing. Sometimes it's background vocals, but sometimes it will be actually vocal tracks. It's so hard to ensure, with no safety net ... you're not gonna get another shot at it, you have to have stability. I think it's very naïve of a lot of people to think that when you see someone open their mouth, they're really singing.

source: - Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

Topics: Thinking, People, Track, Safety Net

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.

Topics: Thinking, Hair, Playing Dress Up

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

source: - "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. November 04, 2009.

Topics: Mother, Opera, Singers

There's a hero, If you look inside your heart

source: - Song: Hero, Album: Music Box, 1993

Topics: Hero, Heart, Looks

I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marveled at it.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Thinking, Wish, Want, Bulldozers

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.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: People, Details, Attention

I'm stuck in 7th grade & I just keep getting let back

Topics: Grades, Stuck

Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

source: - Song: Outside, Album: Butterfly, 1997

Topics: Lying, Believe, Heart, Just Believe, Standing Alone

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.

Topics: Awards, Hair, Fans, Big Hair, Short Skirts

I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular

Topics: Attention, Used, Grades

I can do a reddish-brown or brown lip, but not a bright red. I just don't look good in it. Over the years you learn certain things that don't look good on you, and that's one of them for me.

source: - "Mariah Carey on Her New MAC Lipstick and How She Lives Every Day Like It's a Holiday". Interview with Glam Belleza Latina, www.glamour.com. November 23, 2015.

Topics: Years, Looks, Red

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

source: - Song: My All Stay A While, Album: Butterfly, 1997

Topics: Heartbreak, Thinking Of You, Solitude, Just Thinking Of You, I Think 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.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Women, Thinking, People, Writing Music, Music Writing

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.

Topics: Fit, Backgrounds, Felt

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

source: - "Mariah Carey: 'I try not to be a jerk. I really do'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.

Topics: Girl, Father, Men, Disgusted

You look at me and see the girl,who lives inside the golden world,but don't believe, that's all there is to see,you'll never know the real me.

source: - Song: Looking In, Album: Daydream, 1995

Topics: Girl, Real, Believe, Real Me

When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I'd never be, I'd never be the same.

source: - Song: When I Saw You, Album: Daydream, 1995

Topics: Fall, Falling For You, Saws

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

Topics: Broken Heart, Heart, Broken

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.

source: - "New Again: Mariah Carey". Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

Topics: Children, Thinking, Issues

I love "Frosty the Snowman." My family and I like to go on a sleigh ride with a two-horse sleigh in Aspen, so we all scream different songs at the top of our lungs. I hope it doesn't scare the horses.

source: - "Mariah Carey on Her New MAC Lipstick and How She Lives Every Day Like It's a Holiday". Interview with Glam Belleza Latina, www.glamour.com. November 23, 2015.

Topics: Song, Horse, Two, Aspens, Snowman

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.

source: - Song: One Sweet Day, Album: Daydream, 1995

Topics: Friendship, Sweet, Loss, Shining Down

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

Topics: Thinking, World, Shots

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.

Topics: Nice, Thinking, Trying, Nice Friend

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

Topics: Issues, Hard

Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.

source: - Song: Vision of Love, Album: Mariah Carey

Topics: Strong, Weight, Alienation

I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them.

source: - "Mariah Carey on Her New MAC Lipstick and How She Lives Every Day Like It's a Holiday". Interview with Glam Belleza Latina, www.glamour.com. November 23, 2015.

Topics: Song, Kings, Holiday, Christmas Song

We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it.

Topics: People, Doubt, Singing, Minnie

I didn't have a strong male figure in my life on a day-to-day basis. So I think that whole [marriage] situation, a lot of it stems from a place where I was out there alone as a really and I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me.

source: - "New Again: Mariah Carey". Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

Topics: Strong, Thinking, Males

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Topics: Teenager, Forever, Adolescence

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.

Topics: Nice, Different, Void

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Sometimes, Nervous, Performing

It seems as though I've always been,somebody outside looking in,well, here I am for all of them to bleed,but they can't take my heart from me,and they can't bring me to my knees,they'll never know the real me.

source: - Song: Looking In, Album: Daydream, 1995

Topics: Real, Heart, Here I Am, Outside Looking In, Real Me

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

Topics: Mother, Jobs, Children, Hardest Job

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

Topics: Pigs, Duets, Jennifer

Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

source: - Song: Crybaby, Album: Rainbow, 1999

Topics: Rock And Roll, Tears, Trying, Sipping

Losing my mind From this hollow in my heart

source: - Song: Love Takes Time, Album: Mariah Carey, 1990

Topics: Heart, Divorce, Mind, Losing My Mind

Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.

source: - Interview with Ingrid Sischyc, mariahcareynetwork.com. September 2007.

Topics: Sleep, People, Different

Right now Jack lives with me. Jack is my Jack Russell. I also have a Yorkie named Ginger, but Jack and Ginger can't be in the same place at the same time because she is very jealous. Even if Jack's not in the same state, she would growl if she heard his name.

Topics: Friendship, Dog, Jealous

Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

source: - "Mariah Carey Flaunts Her Figure in SHAPE’s May Issue". Shape Magazine Interview, www.shape.com.

Topics: Baby, Weight, Losing

The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

source: - "Mariah Carey on Her New MAC Lipstick and How She Lives Every Day Like It's a Holiday". Interview with Glam Belleza Latina, www.glamour.com. November 23, 2015.

Topics: America, Scene, Following

The minute I started addressing my feelings, I actually came out of very negative situations.

source: - "New Again: Mariah Carey". Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

Topics: Feelings, Negative, Minutes

Especially since I stared studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment.

source: - "New Again: Mariah Carey". Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October, 1999.

Topics: Feelings, Acting, Emotion

To quote Frank Sinatra, "Regrets, I've had a few / But then again, too few to mention."

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Regret, Frank

The fans never send me crazy things. They send me things that they put so much time and effort into making, and they are so amazing. You have to see them!

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com