Desire Quote by Carly Simon

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

— Carly Simon

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

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

— Carly Simon

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

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

— Carly Simon

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

— Carly Simon

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

— Carly Simon

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

— Carly Simon

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

— Carly Simon

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

— Carly Simon

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

— Carly Simon

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