Helen Reddy

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!

You can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.

I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

[On God:] She makes everything possible.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.