Quotes from Mariah Carey

I really don't do karaoke because it becomes a vocal performance rather than fun, like, 'Let's just sing this song and be silly.' It's not fun for me.

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.

Sometimes I wake up laughing when I have a great dream. And sometimes I have nightmares - and I hate them.

A lot of rappers don't have to go through what I had to go through as a singer. I was always in a bubble that they put me in, but I was always punching out. It was a tough line to walk.

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

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 girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

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 be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

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.

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.

So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.

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.

Time is irrelevant to me. I never wear a watch.

If you're not wearing a lot of makeup, you don't have to take a lot of it off. So, my goal is to wear the least amount of makeup possible so I don't have to steam my face and take it all off.

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'm not Gloria Steinem, but I mean, I'm definitely all for powerful women.

Prince was one of the best people I've met. He didn't care about the big system. I was always like, at any time, Prince could write a No. 1 song because he's that talented, but he chooses to do what he wants. I respect that. He actually helped me through a lot of situations with his knowledge.

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.

Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.