| Saturday 22 December 2001 |
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Early Show transcript
Early Show: Mariah Carey, good morning.
Mariah: Good morning.
Early Show: Nice to see you.
Mariah: Nice to see you.
Early Show: You look great.
Mariah: Thank you. [laughs]
Early Show: A lot of your fans have been wondring how you have been doing the last few months. How are you feeling?
Mariah: I feel great, I have been for awhile. You know what, it's just that I had a crazy schedule fo ryears and I never took time for myself and this summer it was just even more people pulling me in a million directions and me not taking care of myself at all and it was just like a wake up "Hello, take care of yourself and you know, nobody's perfect, your human" and I just had to just stop and take a break so I learned a lot from that.
Early Show: Did you realize the amount of attention, the amount of media attention, was surrounding all of that?
Mariah: No, I had no idea and I like, when I saw it I was like "What is this?" and when I realized people were like kinda stalking me. It was bizarre, the press or whatever and photographers and stuff. I really, I don't see myself like that. Other people say to me "Oh don't you know, you're Mariah Carey... you're this thing" and I'm like "No, why wold anybody sit outside my mom's house, ya know, waiting to take a picture of me".
Early Show: Tell me about your special tonight.
Mariah: This special is something that's really close to my heart. "A Home for the Holidays" and a great cause, it's for foster children to be, brought together with people looking to adopt. And usually it's children that are a little bit older and have been waitng in foster care and these families are just so happy when they come together. I watched some, they have sorta these packages put together where they show you the children and the families and how they come together.
Early Show: Now, I saw a sneak peek of the special and I just, you heartstrings just tug, it's unbelieveable what these children have gone through.
Mariah: Yeah (nods). Mm hmm.
Early Show: And the happy endings at the end of it.
Mariah: The happy endings, and when you hear them say "I have a mom now" or you know, "this is all I ever dreamt of" and things like that and when you see how long they went through and the fact that some of the kids thought they'd never experience that feeling of having a family, so it was a really great cause and some of the kids were there, with the families, in the audience when we did the show and you know, they're... it's great, they're uplifting stories.
Early Show: Why is this issue so important to you?
Mariah: Well, I feel like kids deserve to have families, deserve to be loved and if, if this type of show can push someone over the edge to the point where they were maybe on the were on the fence about adoption, 'cause maybe they weren't sure they wanted to adopt someone a little bit older maybe, then it's worth getting involved, and being a part of this type of charity.
Early Show: Now, you had a little bit of help with the special too, Destiny's Child, Enrique Iglesias, David Hoffman and a group of others.
Mariah: Yeah, amazing talent there, mm hmm.
Early Show: Beyond that, you just got back from Kosovo.
Mariah: Yes I did, which was a totally unique experience for me.
Early Show: How was the morale over there, what were the troops saying to you?
Mariah: [laughs] Um, they said a lot.
Early Show: [laughs] I bet they were really happy to see you, Mariah!
Mariah: [laughs] They said a lot of different things! No, they were really, they were really, they were very up, it's very bleak in Kosovo, it's not like a Cosmopolitan area where ya know, they're hanginig out, when they're off, when they're off time and oh, it seemed like they had they're own sorta family on the base itself and there was a general there who they were calling "The Bachelor" and persuaded me to bring him up on stage and secretly give him a hug and a kiss, it was cute, and it was fun, we decorated Christmas trees and I wore three little red, white and blue ensembles.
Early Show: I think this album that you've done, this unreleased ballad that you've done "There For Me" is so terrific. [shows single]
Mariah: Thank you, this is just a single actually and it's got...
Early Show: Never Too Far.
Mariah: Never Too Far and Hero and there's an unreleased song called "There For Me" and it's not from any album and it's a "thank you" to my fans and Never Too Far and Hero and the proceeds go to the Heroes Foundation, which is, it benefits the police officers' families, were from you know the 9.11 situation, victimized there.
Early Show: That and your Greatest Hits album is out.
Mariah: That's a double album, there... [cuts to GH]
Early Show: Double, well you'll need more than even two to get all your hits on there!
Mariah: Well, it's weird because it feels like I haven't been doing this that long but, I guess you know. [laughs]
Early Show: The hits stack up, what do we say! Is it true you're singing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl this year?
Mariah: I am, yes, I'm looking forward to that.
Early Show: How do you think you're up to singing in front of 300 million people?
Mariah: I guess... "hey!"
Early Show: I guess if you're Mariah Carey, it's just another day at the office. [laughs]
Mariah: You know, you get all geared up, right? And then 2 minutes and 30 seconds...
Early Show: You're done, right?
Mariah: It's over, it's a strange feeling, but it's cool, I'm looking forward to it.
Early Show: And you're going skiining for the holiday.
Mariah: Yes, I am.
Early Show: Very nice.
Mariah: The intermediate skier that I am...
Early Show: I know, we were talking about that. [laughs]
Mariah: We were talking about that. [laughs]
Early Show: No bunny courses, no black diamonds, somewhere in the middle.
Mariah: Yeah, you know, I like the little outfits. I'm gonna try snowboarding this year, I think. [laughs] But the snowboarding outfits, they're not really as, they're not really me, so I'm just gonna try and figure out how to customize them. [laughs]
Early Show: [laughs] I'm sure you'll find a way. Well, it's nice to see you.
Mariah: Nice to see you too.
Early Show: We should say the special tonight.
Mariah: Yes.
Early Show: 8 o'clock.
Mariah: 8 o'clock. [nods]
Early Show: On CBS.
Mariah: On CBS. [nods again]
Early Show: Alright, good luck, we'll be watching!
Mariah: Thank you.
Early Show: Good bye!
Mariah: Happy holidays! Many thanks to Maggie from Mariah Angel.
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