No stranger to interviewing celebrities -- he’s grilled Dolly Parton, Amy Sedaris, and Elton John -- Scissor Sisters front man Jake Shears jumped at the chance to chat up his idol Carly Simon for “Not So Vain” in Out's October issue. “I discovered her at the age of 9 when I was taken to see my first R-rated film, Working Girl,” he told Out. “Carly sang the soon-to-be-Oscar-winning title song ‘Let the River Run’ and I promptly bought the sheet music and learned it on the piano.”
Jake -- who is currently hard at work on his band's third album, as well as adapting Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City into a musical for Broadway -- chatted with Carly about everything, from her new album, This Kind of Love, to why she's attracted to damaged people, to her recent sexual awakening:
Jake Shears: After so many years and having gone through these relationships, what do you feel like you’ve gleaned from them?
Carly Simon: I have really learned about sex. My unselfconsciousness about sex now is so different; the honesty and the power of the combination of the intimacy and the sexuality is novel. I’ve never known that before.
Jake Shears: So it’s almost like a sexual awakening.
Carly Simon: It really is. And it’s a strange thing to say because it’s a strange thing that I haven’t come to it until now.
Jake Shears: That’s pretty great, because I’m sure you’ve probably had some great sex.
Carly Simon: Maybe great sex, but not really totally honest sex. I don’t really know how to explain it, but it is just so open, so honest, and so totally loving. I was always scared of it before. I was always scared about my body and how I came across and if I was a good lover, and instead I now ask.
To read the full interview, and for more from Out's October music issue, including our first ever Top 100 Greatest & Gayest Albums of All Time, head over to Out.com.
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