(Note from Kabuki, who sent this in: i cant stand this surgically augmented user, but...)

taken from an excerpt of an interview Mariah Carey talks about her wealth and her oh! so painful upbringing (yeah wonder what its like to get signed for phat dollas @ 18!)

"Prince called me up the other night and said, 'You think you got a good deal, right?' and then he starts to say how they sell the record for $18.99 and most artists make less than a dollar on each CD. So he says, 'C'mon do the math with me'. I said, 'Prince, I failed math before PURPLE RAIN came out'. So he said, 'OK, if you sell 10 million records that's $100 million for them, and if every album you've ever done has sold eight million, what do you think you made for these people anyway?' Mariah continues: "I said, well, this is such a great company and he says, 'That's like old slave mentality, saying my new master is better than my old master.' Mariah con't: "Talk about taking the wind out of my sails. But I need to keep my eye on things, because I've been frigging taken advantage of like you wouldnt believe. They could do a whole miniseries on my life and my music, but they'd never run it. My lfe has been too sick and twisted".

(Kabuki's note: boo hoo! wearing designer clothing at 18 must've been traumatic!)

[Submission slightly edited to remove some commentary from submitter -Ben]