I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
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… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
