Explore Quotes by Carly Simon

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

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

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

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

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.

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.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.

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

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

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