Carly Simon

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.

There ain’t no freedom when you’ve got a worrying mind.

As a child I used to read Gone with the Wind over and over again. I wanted to be Scarlett O’Hara. I never wanted to believe that it was possible that there could be infidelity. I never wanted to be believe that it was even possible for a man to look another way, even for a moment. My bubble of monogamy was pierced in a harsh way.

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

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

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!

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

America is one of the few places in the world where a poorperson can still be obese.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

We are each a figment of our own imagination.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.