When Carly Simon needs to get away from it all, she heads for the Martha's Vineyard house that's been her refuge for 24 years.
"If you let the power of fame or celebrity catch hold in your psyche, it can swallow your art," the singer said in the July issue of InStyle magazine. "This house has always been a retreat for me because I try to remember who I am in a small way."When Simon first arrived at the house in 1971, it was "a kind of a bachelor hippie shack" built by her first husband, James Taylor. The couple split, but Simon kept the ever-expanding home.
Over the years, she added a 45-foot tower that leads to a meditation room. A new master bedroom was created, connected to a wing built for her children with Taylor. The children, now grown, have their own cottages on the 40-acre property.