I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing.

The music industry had virtually blacklisted me.

I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can't help but show on you.

I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done.

My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.

All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.

Cara is not my real name, and I'm not going to tell you what it is. Only because I do live in New York and enough people already know who my parents are.

I play piano and write better than I can sing.

I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I am without apologizing.

I liked performing, but not the struggle.

I'll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart.

Religion can't separate us, politics can't divide us, wealth can't classify us. We're all one! We're children of LOVE!

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

Once he's on the run, Messi is unstoppable. He's the only player who can change direction at such a pace.

If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.

There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.