The Meaning of Mariah Carey Quotes

“Time has shown me there is no benefit in trying to protect people who never tried to protect me.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“Protect your dreams.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“In the beginning of our time together I was walking on eggshells. Then it became a bed of nails, and then a minefield. I never knew when or what would make him blow, and the anxiety was relentless.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“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, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“My father taught me that words have meaning and thus, they have power.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“I was barely conscious but my standards were still awake.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“Some of us need to be rescued, but everyone wants to be seen.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“thoughtful scrapbook for me, in which they gathered little notes of love and appreciation from other artists or celebrities they worked with or saw in their travels. Joey Lawrence (remember Joey from Blossom?), who was such a heartthrob at the time, apparently left a significantly sweet message. Well, Tommy saw the lovefest of a book, ripped it up, and burned it in the fireplace before I was able to see it—a childish act of cruelty, especially to Billy and Syd, who went through all that effort to prove to me how big I was even among the stars.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“And there is a lot of respect due to him. He was a visionary music executive who fearlessly and ferociously dragged his visions into reality. He believed in me, ruthlessly. “You’re the most talented person I’ve ever met,” he would say to me. “You can be as big as Michael Jackson.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“together and I heard it play, it was mind blowing. I couldn’t believe I was working with her and she was my friend, not to mention that she had given me my biggest gig to date. Yet I said, “I know I don’t have anything big going on yet, but I’m sorry, I have to keep these songs. These songs are the ones I wrote for me.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“being teased for being poor felt like a different kind of cruel.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“Those people who have hurt me, over and over, whom I have escaped or walled off, are deeply significant in my story, but they are not central to my existence.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“I was a wayward child With the weight of the world That I held deep inside. Life was a winding road And I learned many things Little ones shouldn’t know”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“I was asked to write something for the movie Hero, starring Dustin Hoffman and Geena Davis. Tommy had agreed I would submit a song for the film, to be sung by Gloria Estefan, who was on Epic Records (Sony, Tommy’s label, was the parent company). I knew that Luther Vandross was also writing a song for the soundtrack, so I would be in great company.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“I was into it. After all, I sincerely thought I would be with Tommy forever and that the home we would make together would be just as timeless, everlasting, and spectacular as the music we were creating—behind which, of course, I was also the creative force. And spectacular it was. We even had a ballroom. I was in my early twenties, with my own ballroom!”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“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, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“In the beginning, Tommy protected me. Even though I was breathing a bit easier, with some early breaks and a clear path to success, the traumas and insecurities of my childhood—and pressure from my brother and other people trying to take advantage of me—were still right at my back, haunting my every move. I never stopped looking over my shoulder. Tommy shielded me from all the people who thought I owed them something or who wanted to use me. That meant Tommy also protected me from my own family.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“I know life can be so tough And you feel like giving up But you must be strong Baby just hold on You’ll never find the answers if you throw your life away I used to feel the way you do Still I had to keep on going.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“I had no idea how to handle what was going on. It was all of them against me. They had planned it. They fooled me into thinking they actually liked me.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“I was a fish out of water, and though I survived it, I knew that no one there really cared about me, and I certainly knew I wasn’t staying.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“was the third and youngest child, and our parents were divorced by the time I was three.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“In the end, and in the beginning, it’s all about faith for me. I can’t define it, but it has defined me.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“I became an expert in sconces - sconces, dahling!”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“Still vibrating with rage, he slammed his fist on the table and announced, “I just want everybody to know that THANKSGIVING IS CANCELLED!”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“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, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“The conversation drifted to Puffy aka Sean aka P. Diddy, who had recently left Uptown Records, where he’d started as an intern, eventually becoming head of A&R. Now he already had his own record label, Bad Boy, and his star artist, the Notorious B.I.G., was all over the radio and beginning to spread all over a generation.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“Nothing feels like family when you are under surveillance, which I always was.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“But I knew some things he didn’t know too, particularly when it came to trends and popular culture, which I suspect made him feel threatened. He seemed threatened by anything he couldn’t control.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“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, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“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, The Meaning of Mariah Carey