Explore Quotes by Mary J. Blige

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.

I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'

I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.