Carly Simon

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

[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 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.

When I was a little girl, I so wanted to be sociable, but I was scared that I wasn’t going to be able to speak a sentence because I had such a bad stammer.

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.

Seeing things that are bothering you written down takes away their power. It gives you a perspective. Helps you contain them.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

There are some sick people in this world.

When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.

The think I remember most about Brooklyn was how much I wanted to get out of Brooklyn.

You are the fever that never broke, the name stuck in my throat. You are every letter of every word in every poem I ever wrote.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Be as creative as you like, as often as you like, because you can never run out!

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.