Quotes By Helen Reddy

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

I like music to soothe me.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

I am woman, hear me roar.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.