Quotes By Carly Simon

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

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

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

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

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.

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.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

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

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

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

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

I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.

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

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

No, because I've never really changed my style that much.

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.

I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.