I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.

No, I mean, I most certainly date and go out.

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.

You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.

And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.

He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.