There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.
When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
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.
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 wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.
I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.