I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here. Helen Reddy More Quotes by Helen Reddy More Quotes From Helen Reddy I am woman, hear me roar. Helen Reddy i-am-woman I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials. Helen Reddy tv-commercial video tvs Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview. Helen Reddy yoga problem giving I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage. Helen Reddy stage persons In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day. Helen Reddy wedding-day wedding girl 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. Helen Reddy bad-years long america 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. Helen Reddy being-ignored baby people The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos. Helen Reddy social-taboos diversity justice I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend. Helen Reddy women too-much numbers It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain. Helen Reddy asks insane nice 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. Helen Reddy artist believe thinking 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. Helen Reddy magazines careers successful 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. Helen Reddy paper children hands 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. Helen Reddy speak-english people years 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. Helen Reddy home kids years There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you. Helen Reddy magic waiting perfect 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. Helen Reddy made said forget [On God:] She makes everything possible. Helen Reddy god I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States. Helen Reddy australia careers years I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go. Helen Reddy profound long way