I'm actually a really good cook, and people don't believe this about me!

My fans have made all my career moments special for me. They are the ones that have gotten me through every single thing - good times and bad, they are who I go to and lean on. I am very thankful for that.

I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it's just like, Why? Why do that?

I do all of my own stunts in videos. The Jet Ski scenes, the fight scenes, all of them!

I don't think there were great beauty trends in the '90s - I was just doing my own thing.

A lot of rappers don't have to go through what I had to go through as a singer. I was always in a bubble that they put me in, but I was always punching out. It was a tough line to walk.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

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

People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

Once there was a time when I had jock itch . It itchedbad. Then it turned to acne. I chose Stridex. 'Pig's Valve' - Mariah Carey: The Early Poems

When you feel like hope is gone,look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth that a HERO lies in you

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

Prince was one of the best people I've met. He didn't care about the big system. I was always like, at any time, Prince could write a No. 1 song because he's that talented, but he chooses to do what he wants. I respect that. He actually helped me through a lot of situations with his knowledge.

Marilyn Monroe Productions was the first female-owned production company in Hollywood. She paved the way for women in Hollywood, and every single woman owes something to her for that, whether they agree with her image or not.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

... we do not admire what we cannot understand.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The heart that gives, gathers.

If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.

There never was a war that was not inward.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

Superior people never make long visits.

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

The cure for loneliness is solitude.

You are not male or female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry] -- Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.

Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise

Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand.

...discovering Antarctica, its penguin kings and icy spires...

Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

Omissions are not accidents.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity.

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine.

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

I must fight Til I have conquered In myself what causes war

Appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Hate-hardened heart, O heart of iron, iron is iron till it is rust. There never was a war that was not inward;

... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

... we do not admire what we cannot understand.