"There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!" - Mariah Carey
"Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life." - Mariah Carey
"Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go." - Mariah Carey
“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.” - Mariah Carey
"I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that."
"I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it."
"You have enemies? Good, that means you stood up for something."
“Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil.”
"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."