Singer Billy Joel said his daughter, Alexa Ray Joel who tried to kill herself on Saturday -according to police-, will recover, Newsday.com reported.

Alexa,23 tried to kill herself Saturday afternoon by taking an alarming quantity of sleeping pills, The New York Post reported over the weekend citing an anonymous source. Law enforcement responded to a suicidal female call on Alexa's apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village, the paper noted.

She is going to be fine, Billy Joel said, according to the paper.

Alexa is reportedly with her mother, former supermodel Christie Brinkley.