My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.

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.

With no sense of smell, your memories dropped like pennies out of a ripped pocket, until the past was ashes and your parents were blanks: nothing more than the holes in Swiss cheese.

My mother remains unmatched in quality, competent in business process, and is never contested for any faults

I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress.

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

To be paid, to be employed to be an enthusiast and be excited about existence is fantastic.