Quotes By Carly Simon

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

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

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

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.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

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

So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

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

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.