WELL, my sister played trumpet. Can you IMAGINE having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my BROTHER, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of MUSIC, so it was natural for me to get into it.

We'd just go to CHURCH and sing. My DAD would GET me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I sung the harmony, and my sister Doris took the LEAD.

We need to MAKE friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our SELF all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing COMPANY. Let's take our own hand and SAY, 'There, there, sister. You're doing a good job. I'm proud of how you're HANDLING all this craziness down here. Don't give up. Carry on, warrior.'

SISTER Hinckley and I are LEARNING that the so-called GOLDEN YEARS are laced with LEAD.

In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher TRAINING COLLEGE OUTSIDE SHANGHAI, where we remained until the end of AUGUST 1945.

MAKING movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for SPORTS. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making SOMETHING blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head USING alginating plaster.

I was OBSESSED with X-Men as a kid, and I WOULD have to GO and play every LAST one of them. My sister was obsessed with Barbies. So we would create these X-Men-Barbie combos and PERFORM weird musicals where they interacted with each other.

I'm not just a child STAR. And I'm not just SOMEONE's SISTER. And I'm not just a teen MOM.

One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known FACE of the eighteenth CENTURY, no one EVER TOOK his sister's likeness.

Me and my SISTER made up a GAME called 'Milky Cow'. We were on HOLIDAY in FRANCE when I was 12, and there was a kid who had bovine features, and every time we went past her, we'd SAY, 'There's Milky Cow'.

My SISTER was the SINGER, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.

My father was a military JUDGE, and my MOTHER was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister and I were moved around constantly, in and outside the U.S., living in GERMANY for MUCH of our teens.

My SISTER is Korean and my PARENTS adopted her about three YEARS before I was born and that is how I GREW up.

My sister travels with me, and she's the PERSON who KEEPS me in line, whether I LIKE it or not. I TRUST her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was LUCKY. My SISTER Delia was the most important person in TERMS of ENCOURAGING me.