I went public with the alcoholism, very early on... the early '70s. Mercedes McCambridge, the actress, I think was the first recognizable person that went before Congress and talked about it, and I thought that was a good idea, to take some of the stigma away from it and say "Normal, average people can fall prey to it." So it's been public for me. I did a movie about an alcoholic. And today, you're nobody unless you've been to rehab. It seems like everybody has some kind of an addiction.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.

I've never been what you'd call a great singer, but I loved to sing.

I always loved to dance, but I never had a clue what I was doing.

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.