But she told me she was never going to drink again.

I did try to leave, and she came running after me.

It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

And I told her point blank, you've got everything to live for. You've got such talent. You're back singing great, lose the weight. And she went and did it, and look at her now!

Yeah, she was hitting me hard. She was drunk and she was hitting me hard.

No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.

I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with.

She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

She was making great money at personal appearances.

I never had migraines. Never had migraines.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

Because I would give it all back to have my health.

No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.

I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.

She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

And she could never give me an answer. And I realized that, you know, I had a problem on my hands.

On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.

It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

I'm into women. I've always loved women.

I was already set for life when I met her.

I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

But she told me she was never going to drink again.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

She'd hit me before but never over and over and over and over into the head.

Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.

She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach.

I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.

I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it.

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

No days off. I'm a workaholic.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

Giving up is simply not an option.

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception the one who lies with sincerity.

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.

What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.