Mariah Carey visits "The Tonight Show"

Jay: All righty. Welcome back. My first guest, a five-time grammy winner. She had the biggest selling album of 2005. Her new national tour is called "Adventures of Mimi". It kicks off August 5th in Miami, ends in Phoenix on October 10th. Please welcome Mariah Carey. Thanks for coming. You look beautiful.

Mariah: Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Jay: And I'm very impressed that you bought a tour bus. I didn't know you - is this your first tour?

Mariah: It's my first tour bus, yes. It's a work in progress.

Jay: Yeah?

Mariah: Yes. We're trying to get there. We're trying to get to a place that I'll be happy traveling the world on a bus.

Jay: But I think that's cool because a lot of gigs that I'm playing, they fly over. They go - I love the fact that you're just driving through the country and stopping at jack in the box, whatever, and just - with the big bus and doing the whole thing.

Mariah: I try not to stop there quite as much.

Jay: Well, no, I didn't mean it that way. But have you sort of pimped it out yet? Have you done the whole thing?

Mariah: Oh, I don't know if it's quite pimped out yet. But you know, it's getting - it's at a starting place. They're working with it. It's a little, it's a little, you know...

Jay: Cool.

Mariah: We're really starting with Jack, my dog. We're starting with his nook, because that's...

Jay: He has his little dog...

Mariah: Well, he didn't like it. He saw it, and he peed in it. So, I kind of figured it wasn't quite ready. So, yeah. We've got to treat that as a a template.

Jay: Okay. It's a template.

Mariah: As a template, yeah.

Jay: So what features do you want in your bus when you finally really get it rolling?

Mariah: Well, that's the thing. I mean, Jack's nook is very important. And, you know, I can't just buy him a regular bed, because you see what he does.

Jay: Well, that's true.

Mariah: So we're going to have to figure that out. And then just a great space to sleep. You know, because it's like driving from place to place in between shows. Get your rest. And that whole thing. Know, I like Jack. You know what I like about these little annoying "mee, mee" dogs. You know? Right.

Jay: But Jack is a a Jack Russell Terrier. He's a little dog, but he looks like he can throw a punch.

Mariah: You know, you can play with can pick him up by the toy.

Jay: Yeah, and he won't let... And you can will him around like this. I mean whip him around.

Mariah: Exactly, and he loves the water as well.

Jay: Really? Into the water, and they'll think he's drowning, because he's trying to get the jet. So, I heard you guys had a clip of him. Well, I do have this clip, but I said, "we can't show them, it looks like the dog is drowning".

Mariah: He's not drowning. He's so not drowning. He's trying to get the jet, and he'll never get the jet.

Jay: Well, let's take a look. Here's Jack and the jet.

Mariah: Jack is my Jack Russell he's not drowning. He's merely trying to get the jet. It's his eternal quest to get the jet. He's trying to get the jet. He thinks the jet is an animal. He will never get the jet. He can't get the jet.

Jay: Now, you're big on swimming, too, right?

Mariah: I love swimming, yes.

Jay: And you lost, I read in one of these magazines, you lost 32 pounds?

Mariah: I don't even own a scale.

Jay: Really, you don't? You must be the only woman in America who doesn't own a scale.

Mariah: Well, here's the deal. Muscle weighs more than fat. So, if you're muscular, you know, and...

Jay: I mean, you look great.

Mariah: No, seriously, it does weigh more than fat. So why torture yourself with a scale?

Jay: That makes sense.

Mariah: If your clothes fit you better, then you know you lost some weight.

Jay: So if you don't know how much you lost, how do they come up with the 32lbs?

Mariah: 32. I don't know. Could have been 31 point something. It could have been 33, I don't know. I think they randomly pick a a number and you go with it.

Jay: Okay, well it works. You look great.

Mariah: Thank you.

Jay: Now, I know you're in New York City now, right?

Mariah: Yes.

Jay: So where do you swim in New York?

Mariah: Oh, well that's a problem. See, my trainer, the one who does the water aerobics, her name is Patricia, and she's from St. Bart's. So everybody's like, "Only you would bring someone from St. Bart's to New York." It doesn't really work, but I do it. And then we have to go to these, like, random pool places, you know, a hotel or a a building that has a po in it at like 4:00 in the morning when nobody's using it.

Jay: Alright, so you show up in a bikini? "Hi, any chance I can use..." like that?

Mariah: Well, no, no. I show up in my boring workout ensemble. Which is, like, a one-piece bathing suit.

Jay: You know, I don't think any of them would be boring. But do you ever get spotted?

Mariah: I haven't yet. But now that I've just said this on your show, I'm sure I will.

Jay: Because there can't be that many pools in New York.

Mariah: You know what? You'd be surprised. And I found a really great one. And the guys who - security guards who helped me out, thank you very much. If you're watching, we love you.

Jay: And I'm sure they're watching all the time, these security guys. At the pool. All right, so 4:00, at the end of the day, you put on your bathing suit, and you go swimming?

Mariah: Yes.

Jay: And then what, you go home and go to bed? Is that what it is?

Mariah: Yeah, the wind-down process begins, and I go to sleep. But I hear you're a night owl, too.

Jay: Yeah, you know, I am a a night owl. I'm one of those people - 2:00 or 2:30.

Mariah: Right, 2:00 is good for me. If I go to bed by 2:00, I'm normal schedule.

Jay: And then, what time do you get up?

Mariah: What time do you get up?

Jay: I'm up by 7:00. Process is like, 2:00 till 7:00. So, you know. And see how it works. We'll try it. Now, I've got to ask you - you look great.

Mariah: Thank you, Jay.

Jay: You see, to me, how do you do it in New York? Like, to me, you walk down the street, "Oh, there's Ray's pizza, oh, there's Angelo's pizza..."

Mariah: I know.

Jay: "Oh, there's Nunzio's pizza." It's like, how do you - how do you do that? Do you have a diet? Did you - is it your own diet? Is it one that you sort of got from somewhere?

Mariah: Well, there's two versions of a diet that I like to try to adhere to. Okay. One is just the regular kind of like boring, let's say you can have swordfish and spinach. Yeah. Really love, but it's only like one tiny little piece of it you love pizza, I heard that you love pizza. Can have like a morsel of it and that's it. But you can have ice cream, too, as a dessert. But, it's only like one scoop. Like, not even a scoop. Like a spoonful, I guess it would be.

Jay: All right, so, could you get around that by going, okay, one pepperoni, one sausage. Or is it just one pizza for all?

Mariah: Oh, you mean one morsel with pepperoni, one morsel with...

Jay: That doesn't count.

Mariah: You could maybe have two morsels of each.

Jay: So which of those do you love? What is the food that you have to have? You'd die to eat?

Mariah: Basically, I have to - I don't know. I just have to eat to live, not live to eat. But, I love pizza. And, like, you said, living in New York, it's like, when I'm not home and then I go home, like after I've been on long trip, it's like, okay, let's get a slice. Because New York has the best pizza.

Jay: Exactly.

Mariah: Sorry everybody else in the world, but New York and Italy.

Jay: I gotta show you a a picture. This picture made me laugh. This is your house. This is your shoe closet.

Mariah: Yes.

Jay: This is hysterical. This is every guy's nightmare. There you go. Look at these shoes.

Mariah: Why should it be their nightmare, though?

Jay: Just the fact that there are that many. How many shoes do you have?

Mariah: I don't know. But, it's nothing compared to your car collection.

Jay: Well, that's true.

Mariah: Sorry.

Jay: Well, that's true.

Mariah: And they're shoes.

Jay: It's cheaper, too.

Mariah: Exactly.

Jay: Now, why so many? Are you like - do you just have to - do you wear them and once put them away? Or do you have any sort of...

Mariah: Well, the truth of the news when you do photo shoots and you do whatever it is that you do, videos, you get these shoes shoot. And if I don't keep them, then size is just going to end up, like, increasing her shoe closet.

Jay: Oh, I see.

Mariah: So basically, I keep them and I rotate them. But, the main thing is that when I was struggling, like before I got my record to work. And I had one pair of shoes and they had holes in the bottom and it was like this year when it was like really snow and I was like, "I vow I will always have more than one pair of shoes." So I think it stems from that a a little bit. I don't know.

Jay: Now, I heard you have trouble with cars. You mentioned my cars.

Mariah: I do.

Jay: What problems do you have? See, I could probably help you here.

Mariah: You know what? I believe that you really could help me, but you don't exactly have an abundance of time to sit around worrying about my car.

Jay: What happened to your car?

Mariah: Okay, I have a car that's top of the line. I don't want to say what it is, but you can probably imagine.

Jay: Does it have two "r"'s in it?

Mariah: I don't know. I can't spell.

Jay: What happened to it? What happened to it?

Mariah: Well, it's a constant theme with me. It's like I trust, like, the men in my life, meaning, like the accountant folk and the driver people, to tell me, "Okay, this is a good car and this is not going to get screwed up." Because I know nothing about it. Like, I'm not asking them to come write a song for me. Like, I write my own songs, you know, you drive, you deal with the other stuff. Just make sure the car doesn't break. Every time I get - every time I get a car, there's a leak. This latest car is a - and it leaks.

Jay: Ooh.

Mariah: Yes.

Jay: Wow.

Mariah: Made to order, man.

Jay: Wow.

Mariah: And it leaks. And I'm like, and then, like, the radio station gets - like, the radio gets messed up. So I can't change the stations constantly, which is one of the things I like to do. Which is why I don't actually drive.

Jay: Oh, I see.

Mariah: Yeah, because I'd be changing the stations while applying lip gloss, and it wouldn't be cool.

Jay: Now, you're going out on tour. Are you performing outdoors? Are you doing any outdoor...

Mariah: I'm only doing one outdoor show, 'cause I wanted to have a party. It's going to be fun.

Jay: Oh, cool. Beachwear?

Mariah: They can show up however they show up.

Jay: Alright, well, I'm sure they will. Run right now.

Mariah: We're going to rehearsal, yeah.

Jay: All right, well thah. Always a pleasure.