I Try To Get To Those Peculiar

I Had This Terrible Stammer, So I Couldn't Really Speak Properly Until I Was 16 Or 17.

You Don't Have To Prove To Me You're Beautiful To Strangers, I've Got Loving Eyes Of My Own.

We Went To See All The Shows. American Musical Theater And Jazz Were Very Big.

I Grew Up Not Understanding What Was True And What Was Not True. It Gave Me A Sense Of Unreality. I Was Told That This Man [mom's Lover] Was Not My Mother's Lover - When He Was. I Was Told He Was There As A Male Babysitter For My Brother So That He Would Learn Sports And Other Manly Things.

My Father Was A Classical Pianist, And My Mother Was A Singer Of Just About Everything.