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. |
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. |
I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody. |
We need role models who are going to break the mold. |
You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it. |
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 think that most people really know if it's a really great album. |
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. |
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. |
Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs. |
Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic. |
My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters. |
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. |
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s. |
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. |
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. |
No, because I've never really changed my style that much. |
I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs. |
But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers. |
We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure. |