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

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow. — Carly Simon

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

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. — Carly Simon

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. — Carly Simon

You’re so vain. I bet you think this song is about you. — Carly Simon

I’m still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs. — Carly Simon

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

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I’ve never chosen a song that wasn’t. — Carly Simon

I think that I’ve got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves. — Carly Simon

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren’t as easy to sing. — Carly Simon

You’re lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn’t. I was overweight, and I had acne. — Carly Simon

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

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage. — Carly Simon

It didn’t matter as much because I’m a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I’m part black. — Carly Simon

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo. — Carly Simon

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

The models for me were more the folk–rock singers of the ’60s and ’70s. — Carly Simon

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

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

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer–songwriters developed out of that. — Carly Simon

We were enough with ourselves and our enormous little lives. — Carly Simon

I think that most people really know if it’s a really great album. — Carly Simon