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

A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.

My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

Dinah had all the class.

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".

I don't like to hear anybody in show business complain, because I just find it to be such a grateful business. Because there are so many wonderful, creative souls out there and there are so few jobs. And, so, I just find myself thinking to myself "wow, if I could get into a show of any kind and have it last for a while" - that's when I find myself really happy.

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