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.
We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that’s a big mistake, and that keeps us divided. There are Blacks all over this entire world-even in Africa.
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 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.
I haven’t had a vacation in years. I’d really like to sneak off and just run around on a beach for a while.
I liked performing, but not the struggle.
I don’t mean to sound immodest, but I never had any doubt that I’d be successful, nor any fear of success. I was raised as a little goddess who was told she would be a star.
I’ll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart.
That first apartment was a big step. It has a lot to do with being independent.
The situation is not good with the record companies. It’s just not working out, so I don’t plan to record until it’s straightened out. In the meantime I’m happy doing my movies and writing the music for the theme songs, whether I sing them or not.
This has been a long and tiring battle for 10 years. And I’m glad it’s finally resolved. My principles and reputation as a creative artist were involved here-it wasn’t just about the royalties. I can now look foward to getting on with my career.
When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don’t put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best.
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.
Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against. I had enemies I had never heard of because of this. I certainly didn’t have needles hanging out of my arms, nor did I smoke anything.
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 didn’t have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning.
I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn’t like I hadn’t been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That’s my nature. I’ve always been a kind of mature kid.
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.
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.