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.