Karen Carpenter Quotes

We spent an awful lot of time trying to achieve perfection as close as we can come. It`s the foremost thing in both of our minds, at all times.

We had to speak out and tell the truth about us as it is. It`s hell living like a pair of angels.

Richard is 30, and I`m 26. But the letters we got when we said we weren`t virgins, read as though we had committed a crime. People must have been dumb to have believed that we were that good.

(on her brother) If he listened to music, I listened to music. It was unconscious but I idolized him so much and we were so close even though we were three years apart.

(on her 1975 collapse) I had been on a crash diet, and I carried on losing weight afterwards, even though I began eating like mad to counteract it. I`d become stricken with nervous tension which was burning away all my energy.

People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage the audience think, `Nothing can go wrong with them`. We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

For over half the years of my life, I have had a great passion for two pursuits; to craft and build things made of wood and to arrange and perform different styles of music. Both have provided me with great joy and fulfillment and I am grateful to God for the gifts and talents that He has entrusted to me.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I`m determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

Not enough people in this world are happy.

I`m determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

I enjoy money.

It`s kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

I`m just afraid I`m gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We`re just... normal people.