Mariah Carey: My son is the 'life of the party'

"We look identical and we have the identical smile," Mariah Carey said about her son Moroccan.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• "I recognize the joy that's in him," Carey says about her son Moroccan


• Carey says her son will "just smile and be your best friend"


• "She's very dainty and she holds her own bottle," she says about her daughter Monroe

() -- Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's twins, , are less than a year old, but according to the pop star, they're already relatable.

"It's so funny ... there's a picture of the two of us together and we look identical and we have the identical smile," Carey says in a new interview special, "Mariah Carey: On The Record with Fuse." "I recognize the joy that's in him. There's something that was always free about me, it just got stifled as things grew in my career."

The adds that if you walked up to , whom she calls "the life of the party," he would "just smile and be your best friend."

As for adorable twin sister, Monroe, she's got a bright personality of her own, too.

"We have Miss Monroe Cannon -- that's what I call her, Miss Monroe," Carey says. "She's very dainty and she holds her own bottle. She's Miss Independent, definitely Miss Independent."