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.

There was a lot of charm in just living in a big family compound of a house. My two uncles, who were into jazz, lived in the basement, and one of them, Uncle Peter, taught me my first songs on the ukulele.

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

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.

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

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

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

If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.

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

Usually I’m on top to keep the guy from escaping.

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?

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

Friendship, ‘the wine of life,’ said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.

If somebody put a loaded gun to my head & said call your wife the “c” word, i would just tell them to shoot cause it s a quicker death!

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog and will do it again – just watch. He can do much better!

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

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 most beautiful girls wear their hearts on their sleeves and their souls in their smiles.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work.