Carly Simon

The other day I came across a recording I made of a night at my apartment when I was living with Kris Kristofferson. Bob Dylan had been around earlier and we were all passing around the guitar. Whenever it came to my turn I would run into the kitchen and say I’d left the coffee on the stove or something. Shyness. Scared to perform.

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

I’ve sworn never to read any reviews ever again except those that are pointed out to me as nice ones. I would say that most of us who are considered in the artist realm just take it so terribly, and, you know, it can kill ya!

Music brought me closer to the idea of God.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

I never identified with the feminist movement in a strong way. I just kind of lived it. I didn’t politicize it. I didn’t follow any written rules to what it meant to be a feminist. I had my own sense of what was right and wrong.

I love my husband, but my girlfriends are my sanity.

Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

I probably didn’t handle things as diplomatically as I should.

Don’t base a relationship on sex. You need love, compassion and caring. Then sex can be a reflection of that.

To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

I never felt I was too protective. I felt I was functioning as a dam against the river of sh*t that comes pouring down on artists, and it was a job that I took very seriously.

It isn’t about how tall you are or how good-looking you are or whether or not you can play football. It’s about whether you can create a relationship.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Certain guys tell me they want women of substance, not beautiful models. It just means they can’t get beautiful models.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don’t believe in it, and I never have. I’ve never changed. I’ve never changed my hair. I’ve never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I’ve always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep.

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.