Carly Simon

I sought some kind of freedom in music, in the promise of transcendence and the idea that the purity and the innocence of a mythical god could somehow deliver me from darkness.

From the first time I saw a picture of him, James Taylor was it — the ultimate Orpheus of all my fantasies.

You can repeat the mistakes of your parents’ marriage or you can go out of your way not to repeat them.

When I’m feeling anxious or depressed, I do find it helps to reach for a pen and paper. There is something about writing things down, that hand-eye combination, that makes me feel calmer.

Music gave me the energy to revise, revive myself; renew, rebirth myself. It was a palliative, a relief.

[Ben Taylor] He is an interesting combination of the two of us. His voice box is more like mine but the way his tongue sits in his mouth, and the way he pronounces words, is just like James Taylor.

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five’s a charm?

I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she’ll care for me.

I don’t know where to find a good guy. I just think that they’re around and I think you have to be good and at some point you’ll attract that. I really believe that. First, people should stop looking. The looking thing does not work. Just let love find you.

If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.

I’ve always said, ‘If you need Viagra, you’re probably with the wrong girl.

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you’re dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That’s a normal marriage.

The only other person who has a clue about what this is, the good, the bad, is your partner.

I think you have different soul mates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times.

I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody’s face while we’re having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy?

She was always a little crazy, which is why I understand her so well.

Women talk about stuff on the way to the valet that it takes men 10 years to admit to each other. The depth at which women talk to and about each other is invaluable to me. With your really, really close good friends you do that fast.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Dear Ladies: You should never need to prove to other women that he’s in love with you. That’s his job.

If somebody put a loaded gun to my head & said call your wife the “c” word, i would just tell them to shoot cause it s a quicker death!