Top 39 Quotes by Carly Simon

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

We need role models who are going to break the mold.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.