DOWNLOAD Paper Magazine: Seductive Songstress Mariah Carey Reveals All In Its Special Issue (MP3)

Beautiful songstress Mariah Carey is on the cover of the special issue of Paper magazine interviewed by Mickey Boardman and photographed by James White.

She speaks on her being star struck, her show in Las Vegas and much more. She sparkles in a gold tulle gown and a silver crown.

If you could start a rumor about yourself, what would it be?

Start a rumor about myself? Oh, do we have to do that? Can’t we just leave it to all the other people who love to start rumors? I don’t know. I’ve already said that I insist on having puppies everywhere I go, which would be great! Like, that would be great, no?

On whether she has Diva moments: Actually, I have had diva moments, and then people can’t handle it. I guess it’s a little intense, because I come from a true diva: My mother is an opera singer. And that’s a real diva, you know — Juilliard diva. And so other people that are like, ‘I’m a diva,’ it’s like, ‘Honey, you don’t know what a diva is, you didn’t grow up with my mom.’ [Laughs] And I mean it as a compliment, or I wouldn’t be the person I am without experiencing that. And so when people hear me say, like, ‘Dahling da da da da’ and talk that way, it’s kinda like I’m channeling my mother. Not that she says ‘dahling’ all the time, but like that voice is… it’s like I inadvertently do it, and I don’t do it to be disrespectful, I just do it and it just happens and it’s like, [in diva voice] ‘I don’t even know why.’

On being starstruck: There’s always people who I admire and when I see them [I get starstruck]. The last time I saw Prince, he came to my dressing room. I had said I wanted to go visit him to say hello because we’ve met before.When he was living we had had lots of conversations, and he helped me through certain moments that were not easy. I don’t want to get too depressing, but I was having a conversation with Prince and then I looked around the room and I noticed that everyone in the room was looking up and staring like they couldn’t believe he was standing there. But I would always be a little bit starstruck [when] I [saw] Michael Jackson as well.