To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.

If you want to remember me, organize!

I don't want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.