Carly Simon

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

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!

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.

[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.

Music brought me closer to the idea of God.

There ain’t no freedom when you’ve got a worrying mind.

I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

What truly made me fall in love with Barack Obama was his character.

The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

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

[On hooking up romantically with co-stars] It’s understandable. You’re in situations with an actress where you’re supposed to be intimate, physical, and vulnerable with each other, and sometimes feelings get crossed. It’s like you’re away at summer camp and it seems to make sense, but when you go back home, the reality is that it may not be a situation you want to be in.

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

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

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

No one is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

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

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.