Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

Don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back...it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.

I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn't have to apologize for me. It was the strangest feeling. One minute I was on stage with my mother, the next moment I was on stage with Judy Garland. One minute she smiled at me, and the next minute she was like the lioness that owned the stage and suddenly found somebody invading her territory. The killer instinct of a performer had come out in her.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.