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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.

Mariah Carey

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

Feeling Hard Myself Reason Special Thinking Work
Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don’t let anyone tear them away.
MARIAH CAREY

Break Dreams Follow Hard Tear
It’s hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don’t know me.
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Hard Myself People Talk Writing
One doesn’t remain a teenager forever.
MARIAH CAREY

Forever Oneself Teenager
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.
MARIAH CAREY

Best Business Excitement Music Myself People Sound Work
I don’t think anyone knows as much about what’s right for me as I do.
MARIAH CAREY

Myself Right Thinking
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.
MARIAH CAREY

Believe Childhood Darkness Experience Myself Poetry Sad Start Teacher Writing
Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.
MARIAH CAREY

Life Love Time Yourself
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.
MARIAH CAREY

Change Different Hair Invention Myself Serious Style Thinking
You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but can’t control the world.
MARIAH CAREY

Control Death Fight People World Yourself
It’s in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I’m clearly dramatic.
MARIAH CAREY

Blood Drama Mom Myself Sing
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.
MARIAH CAREY

Attention Better Detail Life Myself People Personal
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.
MARIAH CAREY

Brain Count Criticism Head Life Myself Personal Problem
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.
MARIAH CAREY

Freedom Laughter Lost Love Misery Myself Prison World
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.
MARIAH CAREY

Day Friendship Heaven Oneself Shine Sweet Togetherness
My heart has never been broken, I’ve never broken anyone else’s.
MARIAH CAREY

Break Heart Myself

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.

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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.

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