“I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not fe...” — Kara DioGuardi Quote

“I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.”

“Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.”

“I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory.”

“The main dream is to get 'Mandem On The Wall' its own TV show. That's the kind of platform that we're trying to reach.”

“You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.”

“Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'”