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

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

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

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

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

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.

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

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

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

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

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

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

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was born in a blender.

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

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

A star needs all the rest she can get.

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

Dinah had all the class.

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

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

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.

Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.

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.

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.