I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.

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.

Make sure your business is creating a service experience so good that it demands loyalty.

It is not what you say, but how you say, that's important. 99% Fat Free product seems more healthy than a product with 1% Fat.

I felt like I was falling in love but maybe not just with her, with something else, another world, but maybe that's always what falling in love is like.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

His head was turned by too great success.