Carly Simon Quotes

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.

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

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

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

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

I haven't got time for the pain.

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

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 always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

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.

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've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.

All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues. In the realms of man/woman, man/man, woman/woman love, it seems all up for grabs now. We are exploring so much, but I think we gotta go for the fight for all equality first.

You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

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

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

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