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I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper. — Mary J. Blige

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things. — Mary J. Blige

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music. — Boz Scaggs

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. — Mary J. Blige

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

I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige. — Estelle

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

I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life. — Mary J. Blige

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children. — Mary J. Blige

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

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes. — Mary J. Blige

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage. — Mary J. Blige

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. — Mary J. Blige

I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up. — Mary J. Blige

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

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. — Mary J. Blige

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

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

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary. — Mary J. Blige

If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost. — Mary J. Blige

When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school. — Mary J. Blige

I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.' — Mary J. Blige

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

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader. — Mary J. Blige

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music. — Mary J. Blige

I like what I see when I'm looking at me when I'm walking past the mirror, — Mary J. Blige

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block. — Mary J. Blige

My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest. — Mary J. Blige

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

We are all just a work in progress. — Mary J. Blige

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

My first album is playful. — Mary J. Blige

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. — Mary J. Blige

I listen to gospel music. — Mary J. Blige

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. — Mary J. Blige

Your circumstances do not make you who you are! — Mary J. Blige

As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about. — Mary J. Blige

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. — Mary J. Blige

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

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself. — Mary J. Blige

I'm going down! Because you ain't around, baby, my whole world's upside down! — Mary J. Blige

It's OK showing yourself some love. — Mary J. Blige

Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it. — Mary J. Blige

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live. — Mary J. Blige

You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect. — Mary J. Blige

I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it. — Mary J. Blige

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. — Mary J. Blige

Larry David makes me laugh. — Mary J. Blige

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. — Mary J. Blige

I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again. — Mary J. Blige

I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything. — Mary J. Blige

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

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

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it. — Mary J. Blige

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. — Mary J. Blige

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

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. — Mary J. Blige

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. — Mary J. Blige

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up. — Mary J. Blige

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. — Mary J. Blige

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her. — Bryan Ferry

Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends. — Mary J. Blige

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it. — Mary J. Blige

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

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. — Mary J. Blige

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. — Mary J. Blige

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward. — Mary J. Blige

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.' — Mary J. Blige

Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not. — Mary J. Blige

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

It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won. — Mary J. Blige

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself. — Mary J. Blige

I'm searching for a real love. — Mary J. Blige

I just love food, period. — Mary J. Blige

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. — Mary J. Blige

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

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige. — Robin Thicke

I do consider myself part of black history. — Mary J. Blige

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong. — Mary J. Blige

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you. — Ashthon Jones

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. — Mary J. Blige

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

Believe in yourself when nobody else does. — Mary J. Blige

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

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place. — Patti LaBelle

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. — Mary J. Blige

It's the oddest match: Mary J. Blige and Julianne Hough! But we became so close. — Julianne Hough

You know a lot, but you don't know everything. — Mary J. Blige

I've never been a mean person. — Mary J. Blige

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

There's not enough time to be disrespecting ... Life is too short. — Mary J. Blige

I truly enjoy Bono. I think he is an amazing person; I love him. — Mary J. Blige

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. — Mary J. Blige

I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom. — Mary J. Blige

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

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

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. — Mary J. Blige

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

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

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth. — Mary J. Blige