"The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me."

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

"Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother."

"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."

"The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage."

"Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic."

"There is a time of reckoning in all our lives."

"A star needs all the rest she can get."

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

"The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?"

"Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her."

"Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows."

"Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door."

"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."

"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."

"When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it."

"Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends."

"My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition."

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

"I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends."

"When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity."

"My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend."

"Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive."

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

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

"To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits."

"If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off."

"Between them, my parents had 10 marriages."

"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."

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

"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."

"The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks."

"I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me."

"When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody."

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

"My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior."

"Dinah had all the class."

"There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on."

"Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make."

"I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama."

"I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it."

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

"A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone."

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

"My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on."

"My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences."

"The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck."

"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment."

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