What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.