I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

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.

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

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

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.

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.