Carly simon

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

So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

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.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

No, because I've never really changed my style that much.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

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