Quotes By Mary J. Blige

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

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.

I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

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

I do consider myself part of black history.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

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

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

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.

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

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

I listen to gospel music.

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

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

My first album is playful.

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.'