I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show... I think, "that's a show I'll never get back"... I go home at night and I think to myself, "that was my favorite".

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

I really don't look at my past and I really don't look too much to the future because I find that's sort of redundant. I really live right in the present. I live right in the now.

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage after the first concert to meet the Beatles in person. I had a huge crush on George Harrison at the time, having inherited my family's passion for skinny musicians, and I was simply awestruck to be meeting the Fab Four in person.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.