Mary J. Blige Says She's 'Tired' — But Not Ready to Retire Yet - video Dailymotion

Mary J. Blige Says She's 'Tired' — But Not Ready to Retire Yet

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00:00I think you said in an interview recently that you see yourself retiring in five or six years.

00:03Are you still finding that passion in music and I mean, I love music. I'm gonna forever love music and I even love acting.

00:15That's gonna be I mean, you know when it's time, it's time. When it's time. Do you feel like it's almost time?

00:20Do you feel like that? Um, sometimes, you know, I get fatigued.

00:25I've been doing this for 30 something years.

00:27Yeah

00:29You know in a little while it'll be time like yeah a couple of years. Yeah. Yeah. What is retirement look like for you?

00:36Retirement looks like traveling the world going to places. I've never been before

00:40Relaxing, you know on yachts and in homes and just enjoying the fruits of my labor, you know

00:46We're just just working hard, you know, you know until then, you know, we are creeping up on 30 years since my life

00:53You know, that was such a personal and introspective album for you. Yes

00:56What would you go back and tell that version of Mary J now?

01:00Wow, I would tell her some things that she wouldn't even believe I would tell her that you know

01:03Don't be afraid of who she is

01:05She she will be loved by so many just just from telling her truth. Yeah, and

01:12Once she learns how to love herself

01:14It's gonna be amazing what her life is her life is gonna be. Mm-hmm

01:18Yeah

01:19Do you feel like when you found that you when you found that love for yourself that like your life completely changed?

01:24It really did because I was you know on the first album was the 4-1-1

01:27I was searching for a real love and all my life

01:30I didn't know that the real love was me that I was searching for and I mean now that I found her

01:35I mean me me and her unstoppable, you know, I'm my favorite person

01:40It's amazing. Did you I always love asking artists this when you know, you're recording some of your biggest hits

01:45Do you realize that they're a hit?

01:46So did you realize that I'm going down was gonna be a hit when you recorded that I didn't realize anything was gonna be a

01:52Especially in the 90s, okay, you know like still now you just don't know, you know what what it is

01:57Yeah, it feels good to you

01:59But you know, you don't know what it's gonna do to the audience

02:01But what I'm what I've learned is as long as it feels great to you people people will follow, you know, they'll believe it