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

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

I think when you get married, it’s not a totally free ride – it’s not without its unglamorous periods and its fights and its angry noons and silent dawns or vice-versa.

[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 grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

If you wish to clear away the clouds of thought, simply keep your mind in the present.

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Dr. Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and every thing that happins to me from now on..

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

I don’t like when there’s too much conversation because I’m shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.