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

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.

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

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where it all started. Go back and look at history. Look at why the shows you are loving today happened and the artists you are listening to happened. And do your homework on history. Whether it's musical movies, musical plays, Broadway musical recordings - do your homework! And then, that way you will have an understanding of why, now, certain movies, certain plays, certain musicals are making some sort of sense.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.