Quotes By Carly Simon

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

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.

Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

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.

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

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

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

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'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.