One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

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.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

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.

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.