107 Quotes by Carly Simon

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 had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

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

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

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.

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

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