He gave me a look at myself I've never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?

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.

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