Carly Simon

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1943 age 0

   Born

2. 1986 age 43

   CreditHeartburncomposer

3. 1988 age 45

   CreditWorking Girlcomposer

4. 1990 age 47

   CreditPostcards from the Edgecomposer

• ARAnn Roth3 titles
• SOSam O'Steen3 titles
• MNMike Nichols3 titles
• MBMichael Ballhaus2 titles
• KSKevin Spacey2 titles
• CACaroline Aaron2 titles
• OPOliver Platt2 titles
• PBPatrizia von Brandenstein2 titles
• DIDana Ivey2 titles
• RGRobert Greenhut2 titles

• Spouse

  • JTJames Taylor

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• …I would say it's not not about Warren Beatty. But I can't understand why there's been such intense interest about this over the years and I don't really want to play into that. To me, it's not an issue. It's a kind of a fun riddle.

  Carly Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You know, that's so much a part of life, being able to embrace the broken heart, not just cast it off as having no meaning or trying to get rid of it. I think in the book gives a very good journey through the way I handled things that were desperately frightening for me.

  Carly Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I grew up with lots of mystery in my house…I was always feeling on shaky ground when I was growing up. I didn’t know what was what, and that led me to feel very insecure.

  Carly Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think of that time a lot…It’s part of my blood, my bones, all the liquid in my body. I’ve just taken him in so he’s in my core.

  Carly Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I pretended I was Cat Stevens. I started out with very Cat Stevensy chords, very abrupt. I was so stuck in the moment of being fearful so as a lesson to myself I said: ‘but we can never know about the days to come’. I didn’t know when the door-bell was going to ring. I liked that. It was all of a sudden a quarter to eight and I had written the whole song.

  Carly Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Fear came in so much in my life that it did everything but completely stop me. When I was a little girl, I so wanted to be sociable, but I was scared that I wasn't going to be able to speak a sentence because I had such a bad stammer...

  Carly Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0