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.

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.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

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

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.

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

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.