Mary J. Blige Quotations | Page 2

I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before I even start with the songs. I write down different things that I want album to say, and then the songs come from the different words.