Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
MARIAH CAREYIf 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.
More Mariah Carey Quotes
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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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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.
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I still get nervous sometimes before performing.
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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.
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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.
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when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.
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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.
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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.
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I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.
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You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.
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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.
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I really rebel against authority.
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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.
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If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you’re gonna make it happen.
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If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don’t let go! You can make it, make it happen.
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