Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime.

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.

Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn't very present prior to that.

The fans never send me crazy things. They send me things that they put so much time and effort into making, and they are so amazing.

Trust is not very easy for me at all. I want to be a trusting person, but I've been bruised so many times - not to sound woe-is-me about my life.

Stardom is a magical yet freakish situation at times. It's a cliche but very true that at times, you feel so alone, even when you're surrounded by so many people.

I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas 'cause I want to give everyone else their presents.

If you're not wearing a lot of makeup, you don't have to take a lot of it off. So, my goal is to wear the least amount of makeup possible so I don't have to steam my face and take it all off.

I'm a very good laundress when I have to be.

I arrange flowers in my spare time. Well, when I have spare time, that is.

I'm not Gloria Steinem, but I mean, I'm definitely all for powerful women.

I really don't do karaoke because it becomes a vocal performance rather than fun, like, 'Let's just sing this song and be silly.' It's not fun for me.

I love the grimiest rappers in the world. That's my favorite.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

I think that for me, personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.

Sometimes I wake up laughing when I have a great dream. And sometimes I have nightmares - and I hate them.

I'm actually very loyal, to my detriment.

I'm actually really good at Balderdash, and no one wants to play that game with me. Especially the movies category; I don't want to give away my secrets, but I am pretty good at that category.

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.