I think the greatest gift to me is that I can express myself in songs. It helps me get through some of… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
Someone said I never paid any dues. I feel my whole life was struggling, because we were poor. We were alone, we… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I've been blessed to live my dream more than half my life, so I want help give that back to someone else. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
When you love someone so deeply they become your life, it's easy to succumb overwhelming fears inside. Blindly I imagined I could… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
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… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
People all of a sudden just see me and hear me having hit records and it seems to have come out of… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
There's never been anything else in my life that inspired me at all. It's crazy, but I've always loved music and I've… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
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… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
Trust is not very easy for me at all. I want to be a trusting person, but I've been bruised so many… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but everybody thinks that I'm short. When they see me for the first time, women are always surprised to be… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
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… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
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,… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
There is a light at the end of the tunnel...hopefully it's not a freight train. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
The fans never send me crazy things. They send me things that they put so much time and effort into making, and they are… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
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… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
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… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
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… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Mariah Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/75a/mariah-carey-1687_bases_i-didn-t-have-a-strong-male-figure-in-my_2274825.jpg)
