Quotes from Mariah Carey

I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt

I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas 'cause I want to give everyone else their presents.

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!

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

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 are different than most people's.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

I think the greatest gift to me is that I can express myself in songs. It helps me get through some of the hardest times of my life. It also helps me celebrate some of the best times.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

I arrange flowers in my spare time. Well, when I have spare time, that is.

See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.

I could do my own nails... I went to beauty school in the 11th grade. But why would I do that now?

I think that for me, personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.

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.

But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

People are like, 'What is your whole obsession with butterflies?' I'm like, 'I'm not obsessed. I like them. Can't anybody like something?'

I've seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn't very present prior to that.

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

Everybody Out There....Dont take ANYBODY for granted.Cause you never know when you might lose them,and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel

I do all of my own stunts in videos. The Jet Ski scenes, the fight scenes, all of them!

I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.

I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.