Mariah Carey

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

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

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

Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let 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've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

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.

If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

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.