Dear VICE,
 Everybody has problems but as a celebrity it’s really hard to live under a microscope. I never used to want to disappoint anyone, but if you start off like that as a young artist and record companies see that you’re willing to do an album a year, they’ll milk you dry. It’s the nature of the job. And last year I was burning the candle—forget both ends—basically it was just the wick left! So I’ve changed the way I live my life now. If I need to take a break, have some fun, take a nap, I’ll do it and I’m very happy.
Before my father died of cancer last year, he said to me, “There’s only so many really happy moments in life, and I feel that we have shared most of those together.” It was an amazing thing to say but I don’t know if he had that much fun. So for me life should be a party when it can be. No matter what happens, you have to turn a negative into a positive and press on. A lot of people don’t realize that I have a sense of humor, but laughter is what gets me through. We only have so long.
MARIAH
CAREY
R&B singer
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