I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to be an actor, to be a singer, to be a dancer - that I understand. Wanting to be famous - I don't get that. But that's where we're living right now.

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

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

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

Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me.

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

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