Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

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.

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.

I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

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