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"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time."

"This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream, don't ever give up. Never, never listen to anybody, when they try to discourage you; 'cause they do that, believe me!"

"If I don't go out sometimes, I feel like life is passing me by. I missed so much fun in the...past"

"The rush of being new and hot can fade- it will fade- but the music will always be there."

"Oh, please! I am not a diva! It wasn't like I rolled into Monaco, flung out my arms and said, 'Bring me all the seamstresses in the land'." [on yet another ridiculous rumour]

"I remember being five or six years old, looking at New York from the back of a car, thinking, I'm gonna live in the city one day!"

"I don't want to sound like Imelda Marcos--I'm not some obsessed clothes of shoes freak. At home I wear tanks and boxers."

"Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so, I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you. We've come a long way and I feel like I'm just getting started. Because as an artist, and most importantly as a person, I am genuinely happy to finally be free to be who I am. Thank you."

"Alloohaa!!"

"I just want to be able to focus on each fan individually, you know?"

"It's like, Bing Bong, goodnight sir!"

"I know I couldn't and wouldn't be here without them. So any chance I get to give a little something back to my fans, I take it, and I always will."

"So, I wanna dedicate this song to all my fans. Thank you for believing in me and don't ever forget to believe in yourself. This song is called Hero."

"It is me. I am the only one up on the rope, and when you see it you are going to think I'm out of my mind, because they actually pulled me up in the air, like 50 feet in the air and rigged it, and Mase pulled me into the helicopter and stuff." [about the Honey Remix Video]

"I was like, 'These are not slave days, you cannot name me!'"

"This is my message of hope for the new Millennium."

"Believe that you can do it, ok?"

"When I was a little girl, I made a wish that one day I'd be singing and writing songs professionally... and doing what I love for a living and, like you know, I never really imagined it would get to this level, I mean who's gonna think it was gonna get to this level where I'm surrounded by so many incredibly talented people? But, tonight I'm not sitting in my seat because there are two kids here who also made a wish and we're all making it come true tonight. I'd like to thank Titiana Charles and Colleen Wright from the Make A Wish Foundation for their courage and strength... I would like to accept this award on behalf of them because their achievments are much more important than mine!" [American Music Awards, 2000]

"I appreciate ya... I enjoy ya... and I love ya!" [Thanks JLarson]

"..I want to be taken seriously. I don't want people to say, 'Doesn't her body look great in this shot?' I want it to be more like, 'Don't you think she wrote a good song?'"

"...The hamster breeding thing was pretty much...up there-- the best of 'em. One of the best stories I've read about anyone (laughs), with all my free time I go home and breed hamsters; cuz that's just...me!(laughs)"

"I think I've experienced enough emotionally provocative things in my life to fill up three lifetimes of buckets O tears."

"OK, now listen, I have a little announcement to make... along with writing the soundtrack and preparing for my first movie 'All That Glitters,' this summer I will be starring in a gory movie called 'Attack of the Killer Oysters'! So please, check it out in a theatre near you... I had to say it!!!!"

"She's always dogging me and I don't know why, but I still have a lot of respect for all the things she's accomplished in her career." (Mariah on Madonna) [Thanks to Anon.]

"Whatever I do, it's never private!" [Thanks to lin_bfly!]

"A lot of artists make records these days. It's so easy! That's why I'm happy my ones sell great and their ones don't!" [Thanks to lin_bfly!]

"Eat, drink, dance, whatever...!"

"Yeah, I do believe everything is going to be all right in due time! (said like a southern diva with a hopefull undertone!)" [Thanks Regina]

"Are you kidding? I always thought I was ugly. My best friend was this perfect-looking blonde, and I had all this frizzy hair and these bushy eyebrows. I remember being in the seventh grade and really wanting to impress this guy, so I tried highlighting my hair, but it came out orange all over!! Then I tried shaving my eyebrows to thin them out, and I put on all this blue eyeliner. Scary!!"

"There's heartbreakers all over the land, honey and they must be stopped."

"If you know it, please be a lamb and sing along!" [Mariah in Toronto on April 18, 2000, during Rainbow : One Night Only Tour]

"It wasn't like I said, 'OK what's this one doing, what's that one doing and how can I make mine the standard thing that everyone's expecting?' I want to have a good time! I wanted to beat up Bianca. I wanted to bribe the judges in the Divalicious Contest -- 'cause you knew I bribed them. I just want everybody out there to know that I love and appreciate you so much! ... This show is for my fans ... nothing else matters to me! OK -- did I get my point accross? 'Cause I guess they're some haters out there who don't understand what I'm trying to say... Point being that this show is for the fans!" [Mariah in Toronto on April 18, 2000, during Rainbow : One Night Only Tour]

"I've been disillusioned a lot; I think I'm constantly being let down. I'm sure I'm a giving person and a loyal person. I've tried to hold on to friends from high school, but suddenly it's 'Oh, I know her.' I'm like a topic of conversation. Since I was a kid I've always thought of myself as a hard-a**, always smart, streetwise, not vulnerable - but I am."

"...When you are a young artist coming into the music buisness...and you know nothing, suddenly you find yourself surrounded by all these older people...and it's hard because a lot of of it's about young talented people who are really just so eager to record. But, really, what we, as artists, have to remember is that-if you're truly talented-they need you!"

"Stop all the hatred! It would be nice to just kind of enhance each other rather than bringing each other down." [Hey, I like that one! Why]

"I told you, if Jermaine likes it (laughs), then I like it (laughs)...." [From the My All / Stay While mixes] [Thanks j_lo_booty001]

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