As a songwriter, my job was to communicate the song to another artist, and it still is in many ways.
Don Kirshner would take all of our songs. He didn't really make a judgment as to whether it was good or not. He believed in us.
Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.
I am more of a rocking artist paying tribute to the rock 'n roll that I've admired all these years and have not quite been able to do myself until this album.
I didn't feel the weight of responsibility even though I wrote a lot of those lyrics. I just didn't think about it.
I didn't want to be an artist.
I got into acting, which I have been doing for years.
I got involved in the fight for wilderness in Idaho. My husband and I uncovered a nest of corruption in this state.
I have been told by some people that I was the first woman they ever actually saw give a downbeat. Fine, cool.
I just do what I do and assume it's going to be well received if I'm good at it.
I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.
I love that I wrote with all kinds of different people.
I loved the old rocking Stones, and artists like Patti Smith really inspired me.
I may not like the lyrics of some contemporary songs because they tend to repeat the same phrase over and over and over.
I now have experience of being able to listen to the moment of discovery. I turned on the tape recorder and the chords just started coming.
I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.
I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.
I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
I'm a songwriter first.
I'm not worrying and never have. I've just felt the music as I feel it.
I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.
I'm really in a place where I'm not trying to be anything other than what I am.
I'm the same person, but at the same time I also feel brand new. I feel different, expanded and powerful.
I've always tried to do what I feel. I feel in touch with the music of this generation.
I've done two plays and a couple of films as well.
I've had a great career. I hope it continues to be as much fun for the next 30 years.
I've had mixed emotions about videos. It was a real thrill to take my ideas, which I've always been able to put on the audio, and then do the visual.
In 1969 I did the album before Tapestry, called Writer, and one before that was with the group called City. That was me easing into being an artist.
In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.
It was put on me. I never accepted it. I just did what I did.
Making the demo is a natural product of writing a song; after that, I'm happy to hear other people do it in other ways.
Men and women have come up to me and said, I got married to that.
Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.
Tapestry was the album in which it came together. Tapestry was really a collection of songs that I was doing demos of.
The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
The muse was dormant for a while.
The musicians I asked to work with me on the album all showed up, and that really meant a lot to me.
The song is the center; the song is the key. If you don't have a good song you don't have anything by my value.
The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it.
There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.
Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.
We were all cranking out things that sounded similar to the record that had just been out.
We were well aware of the current hit of the artist when we were writing, and we were told to write the follow-up.
What I remember is a mimeographed piece of paper typed on both sides, and that was it. It was very homegrown. It was very early in my career.
When I wrote it, I didn't know it was gonna be an important album. It turned out to be an important album because it had an historical context.
Carole's song, "Now and Forever" from the film "A League of Their Own," was nominated for an Academy Award.
Carole's third husband, Rick Evers, died of a heroine overdose in 1978.
Carole formed her first singing group, called The Co-Sines, while still in high school.
The first song that Carole and Gerry Goffin wrote that topped the charts was "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow," sung by the Shirelles.
Carole moved from California, USA to Ireland in the early 1990s.
Carole attended Queen's College in New York.
After many of Carole's and Gerry's songs had become hits for other performers, "It Might as Well Rain Until September" was the first song Carole released as a singer.
Carole has been married three times. Her first husband, Gerry Goffin, was also her co-writer for a number of hit songs. That marriage lasted from 1960 to 1968 and ended in divorce. They had two children. She married Charles Larkey in 1968 and divorced in 1976. They also had two children. Her last marriage, to Rick Evers, left her a widow in 1978.
Carole King and her daughter Louise Goffin sing the theme song to Gilmore Girls.
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