Carly Simon

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

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

There are a few things that were just sheer, unadulterated joy, like the birth of my children.

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.

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!

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.

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

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

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.

You don’t have to love everything a person does to love that person.

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?

If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t got nothing.

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

Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.

She was not for everyone, but she was for me.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Relationships are truly like a garden, if you tend it, water it, weed it and feed it, it will grow into a beautiful garden. If you only go out there every few weeks to look it over for a few moments, what do you think it’s going to look like in a few months? It’s going to be a weed patch. It will disappear.

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

I’m currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it’s all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.

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