I'll be gray by the time I'm 30, but I like my hair. It looks shiny. I like the way it looks when those highlights are picked up on camera.

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.

We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil.

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I find youthful looks appealing.

Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.