It got to a point of where it was ruining my health and I just hated it. I hated doing it and I couldn't stop without some kind of help to get the longing for it out of my system.

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.

Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.

Honey, that man would do anything to keep you. Lie, steal, cheat, kill, clean up after himself, and do laundry.

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

I made mistakes, I made some bread. I even made a way for them to get ahead.

There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.

Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.

Words are what created our world. Words are what keep it going.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.