You Have To Work Hard

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.

I Mean, I Inherited The Disease Of Alcoholism, And I Learned Early To Get Help When I Needed It. I Always Went To People Who Knew More Than I Did.

It's A Waste Of Time To Think About What I Should Have Done And What I Didn't. I Really Believe In That. That's How I React To The If-onlys Of Life. To Moan And Groan About Something I Shouldn't Have Done, Could Have Done, Might Have Done...who Knows? It Is What It Is. You Got What You Got. I Live My Life One Day At A Time.

Initially, I Wanted To Be An Ice Skater, But Then When I Was 13 I Saw Bye Bye Birdie, And That Was It - I Wanted To Be On Broadway.

If We Had A Hard Time, My Mother Would Sit Me Down And We Would Talk About It, And She Kept Talking And Kept Processing Until We Started To Laugh About It.