“The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backst...” — Lorna Luft Quote

“The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.”

“I see musicians like Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris as more than just musical icons: they are planets, with a gravitational pull - from how they flip their hair just-so when they bow, right down to their hearty backstage banter. It takes decades to learn the innuendos of being gracious and genuine all at once.”

“Prayer is God's backstage pass into a personal audience with Him.”

“We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that are holding Broadway back.”

“At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'”

“Often you'd find yourself exhausted backstage during a matinee with glitter on your face, asking a colleague, 'Who's your gas supplier?' At the time, I thought, 'This would make a brilliant TV comedy drama.'”