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… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
We're all a little wacko sometimes, and if we think we're not, maybe we are more than we know. — 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
