I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one.

My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.