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

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.

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

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

Every time I go out on a stage I consider myself very lucky. Because, in a time where people are economically thinking about what to go and see - so, when I am on a stage, and it doesn't matter where I am, that's my favorite show. I come home after and say "That was my favorite show".

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.