Helen Reddy

“You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.”

“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!”

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

“Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.”

“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.”

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

“I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.”

“I am woman, hear me roar.”

“My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.”

“I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.”

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

“I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.”

“I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.”

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

“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.”

“There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.”