Quotes from Carly Simon

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

But I'm lost when it comes to you.

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

We need role models who are going to break the mold.

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you.

We are stardust, we are fallen and we've got to get back to the garden.

They could never guess, in the silences.. That all I want is you, And the Sexy Hurricane that we share.

We were enough with ourselves and our enormous little lives.

Besides, as Mark Twain once said, "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

There's always that peculiar thing that rescues you, the thing that's so hard to name. If I were to locate and then identify all the hellish things we all have to go through in life in order to uncover one minute of happiness, it would take up a lot of space.

We are stardust...

If I were to locate and then identify all the hellish things we all have to go through in life in order to uncover one minute of happiness, it would take up a lot of space.

preprandial

I'd study the people around me for clues. Clues to figure out whom to emulate, how to dress, how to speak, how to act, how to dance. I'd grown up feeling unworthy and underloved. I wanted nothing more than to feel secure in myself—to feel that I was really good at something.

hot, I was shivering. Billy, though,