Mariah Carey feels like a "cash machine with a wig on".

The 'Touch My Body' singer - whose marriage to Columbia Records executive
Tommy Mottola ended in divorce in 1998 - finds it hard to judge who is
genuine and who just wants to be part of the Mariah circus.

She said: "You don't know who is here for the glamour, for the gossip
factor. You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you.
Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it."

Mariah, 37, also spoke about making peace with her estranged father Alfred
Roy before he lost his battle with cancer in 2002.

The singer, who included a song dedicated to her father 'Sunflowers for
Alfred Roy' on her 'Charmbracelet' album, added to Parade magazine: "Before
he passed away, he said, 'You were always a star in my eyes.' Which was very
meaningful, because to a lot of people, you're really not worth anything
unless you're raking in the dough and having number one hits."

She wears bra tops and hot pants on stage but Mariah Carey says she is a prude and "buttoned-up" girl. The 38-year-old singer revealed her shyness about sex by saying: "I'm Mary Poppins: I'm what the buttoned-up girls are supposed to be." In an interview with magazine, Allure, Carey says that she is "a freakin' prude." Mariah also says she is a child at heart who once let actress Lindsay Lohan and singer Sean Lennon hold a jam session in her Mermaid Room. Well known for her sexy image, Carey told the April issue of Allure she has a low self-esteem and is looking for true love. Carey also talks about her five-year marriage to one-time Sony music executive, Tommy Mottola who is 20 years her senior and helped launch her career.