Mary J. Blige Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on.

If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.

When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.

We are all just a work in progress.

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.

The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

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

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

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.

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

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

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.

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

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.

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

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

I'm hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don't have to do anything. That's what I'm striving for.

I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.

The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.

I do consider myself part of black history.

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.

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

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

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

I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.