Carly Simon

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.

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

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

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.

One of the things about creativity is you can be in denial about these things. When I found out I had cancer, there were four hours in which I was pounding my head on the marble kitchen top saying, “I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.” But then I felt as if this little army in uniform was flooding me. They had come to help me fight it. I felt really strong about it after that. It was one of the strongest periods of my life.

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.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That’s what we love to do with our lives.

It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don’t have sex-ever. Now that the milk is free, we’ve both become lactose intolerant.

The only time a woman has a true orgasm is when she’s shopping.

Never put more in a relationship than you can afford to lose.

True friends stab you in the front.

There’s a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.