Top 25 Helen Reddy Quotes

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I thought Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I’ve ever read in my life.

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

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

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

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.

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

Depression, as far as I’m concerned, is just a waste of time.

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

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

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

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.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don’t speak English at all. It must be hell.

I like music to soothe me.

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