Battle Quote by Carly Simon

“I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.”

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

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

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

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We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.

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

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

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

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You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.

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

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Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I…

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