Airbrushed to perfection, Mariah Carey covers the December / January issue of Paper magazine. Here are a few interview snippets via Just Jared to make you pat your weaves to.

On the media’s harsh treatment of her 2001 breakdown:

“It was after September 11th. A lot of people taking shots at me had no place to go. We are friggin’ ADD, this country. There’s a huge ADD situation.”

On dressing provocatively at an early age:

“I have had very low self-esteem my whole life. When I was 12 or 13, I remember walking up the driveway, and this guy who was 20 — which may have been highly inappropriate — said to me, ‘I like your pants,’ and I was like ‘Oh, that looks good? Oh, OK, I will wear tight pants now.”

On her relationship with husband Nick Cannon:

“All we do is have fun together. I don’t know what his eternal age is but maybe it’s more like 16.”