Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

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

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.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

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 think that when you're in your twenties you think about your future, when you're in your thirties you're raising kids and you think about their future, but when you get to a time when you are diagnosed with any kind of life altering illness, what did you take away from it? And what I took away from it was how to live in the "now".