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

" As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life. "

" It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract. "

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

" I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me. "

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

" 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. "

" Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen. "

" In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. "

" My main exercise is cardio. The treadmill is fine, but running outdoors gives me the best results. I try to log 6 to 8 miles a week. I could be in the worst mood, but when I do my cardio, I feel much, much better. "

" I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.' "

" Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free. "

" People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment. "

" I cannot save the world; that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J. Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it, too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" Larry David makes me laugh. "

" Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen. "

" 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. "

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

" From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that. "

" 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. "

" When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs. "

" 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. "

" This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you. "

" 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. "