Post by oh my cher on Aug 17, 2005 23:22:03 GMT -5
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"I've been surprised with every decade. If you listen to the critics, I've been on my way out again and again. I feel the reason I'm still working is that I have a strange, metaphysical get-out-of-jail-free card. Kids like me, and I'm not sure why."
"I've had really down times where I thought I'd never work again," she says. "I feel like a bumper car — I hit a wall, back up and go again."
"Young people are on the forefront of what's going on, but us old people won't get out of the way," she says. "At some point, we're forced to, I guess. When I hit 50, I thought, 'Well, this is it. It's over.' But it isn't. The rock generation just keeps going and picking up generations as it goes. All other generations — the flappers, the bobby-soxers — were gracious and got out of the way."
"I'm not thrilled with birthdays."
"Thank God I have a great chiropractor," she says. "I wish I'd never introduced him to Madonna and Janet and Tina (Turner). Now I have to share him."
"I can sing Gershwin, I can sing rock 'n' roll. It doesn't matter what beat you put to music."
"I'd been singing for a million years, and it was not fun to hear my voice in the obvious, tired old boring way. My voice is not my favorite thing. I love to sing; I just don't want to listen to it."
"I'm very schizo. I only operate on stop and full blast. My life outside of my work is narrow and not very adventurous. Sometimes, I feel like I'm the doll that gets taken out of the box for a really glamorous moment, then put back in the box.
"I've led a very isolated life. I'm always an observer. People are so busy looking at me that they don't feel they can be seen. I have a strange view of what's going on by watching people who think I can't see them or hear them. I'm not sure it's a fun place to be, but it's interesting and strange."
After weathering media criticism since her teens, her skin is no thicker.
"You never get used to it," she says. "You cry and cry and cry until you're finished. Just because you keep going doesn't mean you're not devastated. You just don't show it.
I'm not a huge Mariah Carey fan, but I can't understand how you can have a nervous breakdown and not have people rally around you. You can be a heroin addict or an alcoholic, and people take you back. It's strange how we stigmatize some things but have respect for anyone who goes to Betty Ford."
"I've been surprised with every decade. If you listen to the critics, I've been on my way out again and again. I feel the reason I'm still working is that I have a strange, metaphysical get-out-of-jail-free card. Kids like me, and I'm not sure why."
"I've had really down times where I thought I'd never work again," she says. "I feel like a bumper car — I hit a wall, back up and go again."
"Young people are on the forefront of what's going on, but us old people won't get out of the way," she says. "At some point, we're forced to, I guess. When I hit 50, I thought, 'Well, this is it. It's over.' But it isn't. The rock generation just keeps going and picking up generations as it goes. All other generations — the flappers, the bobby-soxers — were gracious and got out of the way."
"I'm not thrilled with birthdays."
"Thank God I have a great chiropractor," she says. "I wish I'd never introduced him to Madonna and Janet and Tina (Turner). Now I have to share him."
"I can sing Gershwin, I can sing rock 'n' roll. It doesn't matter what beat you put to music."
"I'd been singing for a million years, and it was not fun to hear my voice in the obvious, tired old boring way. My voice is not my favorite thing. I love to sing; I just don't want to listen to it."
"I'm very schizo. I only operate on stop and full blast. My life outside of my work is narrow and not very adventurous. Sometimes, I feel like I'm the doll that gets taken out of the box for a really glamorous moment, then put back in the box.
"I've led a very isolated life. I'm always an observer. People are so busy looking at me that they don't feel they can be seen. I have a strange view of what's going on by watching people who think I can't see them or hear them. I'm not sure it's a fun place to be, but it's interesting and strange."
After weathering media criticism since her teens, her skin is no thicker.
"You never get used to it," she says. "You cry and cry and cry until you're finished. Just because you keep going doesn't mean you're not devastated. You just don't show it.
I'm not a huge Mariah Carey fan, but I can't understand how you can have a nervous breakdown and not have people rally around you. You can be a heroin addict or an alcoholic, and people take you back. It's strange how we stigmatize some things but have respect for anyone who goes to Betty Ford."