I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad -- well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.

As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.