Mariah Carey says ageing ‘just doesn't happen' to her
Asked about how she deals with ageing, Carey said: 'I don't allow it – it just doesn't happen. I don't know time. I don't know numbers. I do not acknowledge time – I have a new song that starts with that line.'
Carey also spoke about looking back at her life while writing her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey, with journalist Michaela Angela Davis.
She said: 'Working on it together was challenging, but it was also therapeutic. We stayed up late figuring out how we were going to put the story forth.
'I knew it was going to bring up bad memories I didn't want to relive. It was a tough situation to go to sleep listening to it, I'd wake up and be kind of freaked out. Because this is me and I went through that.'
But the star also said she wanted to 'have a laugh' on the new album's lead single Type Dangerous, which she described as 'tongue in cheek'.
The singer also spoke about her mother's influence on her career, adding: 'We didn't always have the world's greatest relationship but certain things she said or did resonated with me as a kid.
'She once told me, 'don't say if I make it, say when I make it', that just stuck with me, and I never gave up.'
The full interview with Carey can be read in the September issue of Harper's Bazaar, which is on sale from July 31.
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