Quotes by Mariah Carey

• 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.
• If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.
• In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.
• It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
• My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.
• My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
• Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.
• 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.
• 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!
• 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.
• There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!
• Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
• 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.
• 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.
• I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.
• Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
• 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.
• 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.
• I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.
• I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.