“ I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty. ”

“ I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death. ”

“ The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way. ”

“ I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully. ”

“ Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be. ”

“ I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. ”

“ I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations. ”

“ My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave. ”

“ Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one. ”

“ I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society. ”