"I think a lot of you know that I enjoy my fans quite a bit."
"You know what? I don't really care what anybody says about me..... What I care about is YOU...Everybody out there who has supported me!"
"This show is for you and I to have a good time... This is for you to have fun, and if you have fun then I have succeeded and nothing else matters."
"Yeeahhhh.... I do believe I'm having a good time with you people tonight."
Introducing "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)"
"This next song is dedicated to anybody out there who needs a little encouragement. I guess we all do sometimes. No matter what anybody says, do not let them take your spirit away from you. They can't do it if you don't let 'em."
"Chris used to get in trouble for wearing a skirt and combat boots back in the eighties when he was in junior high. Now he's getting paid to be in huge arenas wearing a dress! What do you know?"
(Mariah in reference to Chris, her makeup artist who played Miss Ter in the "X-Girlfriend" beauty pageant skit)
"I need to know one thing from you this evening... Do you like the ensemble?"
-Intro to "Honey"
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"Everybody makes such a big deal about the dress. Can't we focus on like, human beings, and who has a good heart and who doesn't and who's, you know, trying to do something more than just stand there and glorify themself?"
-On the "Rosie O'Donnell Show" 2/8/2000
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-On the "Rosie O'Donnell Show" 2/8/2000
"I feel like I'm just getting started because as an artist, and more importantly as a person, I am genuinely happy and finally, finally free to be who I really am."
-Billboard Awards 1999
"I don't look at it like, 'Whoa! I'm a big star!' You know what I mean? I don't look at my life like that. I look at it like, 'I'm blessed.' And I thank God every day."
"I'm grateful to God for the fact that I've been blessed with the ability to write songs too because that's something that's so important to me in terms of expressing myself. I'm rehearsing for my first world tour almost ever (The Rainbow Tour) and singing certain songs tonight that were just like, they came out of me. And I was singing them tonight and they were very emotional and I wondered, if I had not written those songs, would they have had the same impact upon me?"
"I am not Cinderella, my life has not been a fairytale! Forget the image, forget the ensembles, forget the rumors, forget the short skirts, big hair, whatever!"
"When I first wrote this song, it meant a lot to me, but when I sing it now, it has whole new meaning."
-Introducing "Hero" in Hawaii during the Butterfly Tour, Feb. 1998
"Never, ever listen to anybody when they try to discourage you. Because they do that. Believe me."
-Introducing "Make It Happen" at Madison Square Garden 10/10/95
"When I was a little girl, my mother always told me that if I believed in myself, I could do anything or be anything that I wanted to be. And I think that if you remember that, it will really help you to realize all your dreams."
"I actually liked gym class, when I didn't actually have to participate in sports!"
"I feel like I have a very special bond with my fans, you know what I'm saying? We have our own kind of little thing going, things that we like to say. Okay so some people out there, you may not be aware of these things. You don't know what the lamb is. You might not even know who Chops is. You might not even know about the ensemble thing. But for those of you who know, my devoted dedicated fans... I appreciate ya, I enjoy ya, and I love ya!"
-From the Chicago Concert 2000
"If you have peace within yourself, no one else can touch you, no matter what happens."
-From Homecoming Special. Thanks to [email protected] for this one!
"I think I've experienced enough emotionally provocative things to fill up three lifetimes of buckets o' tears"
"Every day has work and hassles, but it's okay."
"Couldn't you guys lose that video like in the archives or somewhere? Let that one burn?" (Mariah is referring to the VOL video...she does NOT like it...)
"Yeah. Hire some hair and make-up people, then call it a day." (Mariah's response when asked if she had any beauty secrets.)
"I think crossing racial and musical lines and boundaries is very important to me...But that's something that's been a monumental achievement for me. It's what I love to do."
"Everybody out there, keep your head up. If you're working toward a dream, don't give up and don't stop!"
From Mariah's acceptance address at the 2000 World Music Awards
If young girls or guys are ragging on you because you're not in the in-crowd, or you don't look right or act right, or you're different in some way, they can't take your spirit away.
Mariah explains part of the meaning behind "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)"
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