“Well,” said Carey, “I have been through my share of dramas and it’s not fun because you grow up thinking, ‘I want to be famous.’ I mean, really with me, it was always, ‘I want to be a singer. I want to write songs.
“But ‘I want to be famous’ was right there with it,” she continued. “I feel like it was probably because I didn’t feel like I was good enough on my own because of the things I went through growing up. And that’s not a good way to feel, you know?”
The ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ singer concluded by advising young artists to enter the industry “with a love of your talent or what’s really real” for them as performers. “You know, if it’s like, ‘I want to be famous. I want to run around with those people, whoever they are, the famous people,’ then it’s probably not the best idea.”
by cmaia1503