Top 140 Mariah Carey Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.”

— Mariah Carey

52. “It’s not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That’s life. I have feelings.”

— Mariah Carey

53. “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

54. “When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I’d never be, I’d never be the same.”

— Mariah Carey

55. “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.”

— Mariah Carey

56. “Don’t you know that you’re blowing my mind? What you do to me I can’t describe. Baby, I can’t hold back anymore. I just can’t conceal it. You’re the one I really adore.”

— Mariah Carey

57. “I love “Frosty the Snowman.” My family and I like to go on a sleigh ride with a two-horse sleigh in Aspen, so we all scream different songs at the top of our lungs. I hope it doesn’t scare the horses.”

— Mariah Carey

58. “I’m so thankful that I’ve received The answer that heaven has sent down to me You treated me kind Sweet destiny And I’ll be eternally grateful.”

— Mariah Carey

59. “True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water.”

— Mariah Carey

60. “Right now Jack lives with me. Jack is my Jack Russell. I also have a Yorkie named Ginger, but Jack and Ginger can’t be in the same place at the same time because she is very jealous. Even if Jack’s not in the same state, she would growl if she heard his name.”

— Mariah Carey

61. “One doesn’t remain a teenager forever.”

— Mariah Carey

62. “It’s in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I’m clearly dramatic.”

— Mariah Carey

63. “I really rebel against authority.”

— Mariah Carey

64. “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.”

— Mariah Carey

65. “If two people want to get married, it’s their prerogative – we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness.”

— Mariah Carey

66. “My siblings and my mother wouldn’t communicate for most of the year, so by Christmas dinner my brother and sister would come stuffed with hurt and anger, starving for attention. Eventually, inevitably, they would all explode in a torrent of verbal abuse. I would sit there in the center of the chaos, crying and wishing: wishing they would stop screaming, wishing my mother could stop them from screaming and cursing. Wishing I could be somewhere safe and merry – somewhere that felt like Christmas.”

— Mariah Carey

67. “I think one of the reasons I pushed myself so hard and worked so hard is because I never felt special.”

— Mariah Carey

68. “Nothing feels like family when you are under surveillance, which I always was.”

— Mariah Carey

69. “I’m really fortunate. I’m really happy, and I’m really really lucky to be where I am.”

— Mariah Carey

70. “Don’t say she takes it all for granted I’m well aware of all I have Don’t think that I am disenchanted Please understand.”

— Mariah Carey

71. “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.”

— Mariah Carey

72. “Some of us need to be rescued, but everyone wants to be seen.”

— Mariah Carey

73. “Most record executives just didn’t know how they would work my record. They weren’t sure it could “cross over.” But for the record, Teena Marie never cared about crossing over. And I didn’t want to cross over either. I wanted to transcend.”

— Mariah Carey

74. “We’re all a little wacko sometimes, and if we think we’re not, maybe we are more than we know.”

— Mariah Carey

75. “You can’t live with regrets. It’s about the journey.”

— Mariah Carey

76. “If there was any perception of a fairy-tale marriage or life, it was absolutely smoke and mirrors. The ironclad safety that Tommy provided from my family turned into an ironclad dungeon. The control and imbalance of power in our relationship accelerated.”

— Mariah Carey

77. “And I missed a lot of life, but I’ll recover Though I know you really like to see me suffer Still I wish that you and I’d forgive each other ‘Cause I miss you, Valentine, and really loved you.”

— Mariah Carey

78. “More than my personal happiness, I needed my career as an artist to survive. Happiness was secondary. Happiness was a fleeting bonus. I married Tommy because I thought it was the only way for me to survive in that relationship. I saw the power he could put behind my music, and he saw the power my music could give him. Our holy matrimony was built on creativity and vulnerability.”

— Mariah Carey

79. “Little did I know, giving in to Tommy’s demands would gradually swallow my privacy and begin to erase my identity.”

— Mariah Carey

80. “Nothing that’s ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It’s always, “Whatever-let’s go to Disneyland.” Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what’s positive.”

— Mariah Carey

81. “When it comes to lingerie, I know what I’m doing.”

— Mariah Carey

82. “I’m very hard on myself and I have too many issues.”

— Mariah Carey

83. “Underneath the shine, however, I had some inkling that there was a darker energy that came with him – a price to pay for his protection. But at nineteen, I was willing to pay.”

— Mariah Carey

84. “Tommy had shared his own opinion with me and my nephew Shawn: “Puffy will be shining my shoes in two years.” I was stunned. Wait. What did he say? It was one of the very few times I stood up to Tommy, telling him that what he had said was blatantly racist.”

— Mariah Carey

85. “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.”

— Mariah Carey

86. “I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don’t even think about what I’ve achieved, I haven’t focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don’t know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven’t marvelled at it.”

— Mariah Carey

87. “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.”

— Mariah Carey

88. “My beauty school class was made up of mostly Italian girls. There were mean girls, there were shy girls, there were regular girls, and then there were the girls.”

— Mariah Carey

89. “I’m not great at putting my hair into a bun, but I’ll do it if I have to.”

— Mariah Carey

90. “I 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.”

— Mariah Carey

91. “I don’t go out much. I’m also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I’d never have time to write or sing.”

— Mariah Carey

92. “It’s hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don’t know me.”

— Mariah Carey

93. “I’m experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it’s appropriate I do it on the record.”

— Mariah Carey

94. “People are always asking, ‘Is everything ok?’ Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.”

— Mariah Carey

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

— Mariah Carey

96. “My father taught me that words have meaning and thus, they have power.”

— Mariah Carey

97. “But I closed my eyes Steadied my feet on the ground Raised my head to the sky And the times rolled by Still I feel like a child As I look at the moon Maybe I grew up A little too soon.”

— Mariah Carey

98. “One of the cops, looking down at me but speaking to another cop beside him, said, “If this kid makes it, it’ll be a miracle.” And that night, I became less of a kid and more of a miracle.”

— Mariah Carey

99. “I’m not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.”

— Mariah Carey

100. “I’ve been working on my craft for a long time. People never want to let go of the whole ‘Glitter,‘... I’m like, ‘It’s eight years later, people. Let’s move on.”

— Mariah Carey