When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe.

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.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

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

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

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