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

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• Carly Simon:

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

• Carly Simon:

  Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would

• Carly Simon:

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

• Carly Simon:

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

• Carly Simon:

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

• Carly Simon:

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

• Carly Simon:

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

• Carly Simon:

  I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

• Carly Simon:

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

• Carly Simon:

  Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.