Carly Simon

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

[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.

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’m constantly reemerging in my life.

I have simply found a way of loving through whatever absences or dejections have fallen like tree branches in my path.

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

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

We change every minute, never the same. If there’s no room to express the changes there can’t be any truthfulness.

Every success is the mother of countless others.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because its much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Don’t make me put your head in my blender!

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I’m just doing this for the money or I’m just going through the motions, I’ll quit.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.