Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.