Debbie Harry
I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.Collection: New
But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.Collection: Computers
I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.Collection: Morning
I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.Collection: Experience
I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.
Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.
I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.
I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing.
Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.
I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.
You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.
The only person I really believe in is me.
That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.
I guess people assume I have some sort of totally magical life, but I'm a working musician, fortunately. I've worked on my craft, and I'm very fortunate I've been able to survive in a very competitive industry and enjoy my success. It's not easy.
I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
Being hot never hurts!
I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.
But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.
Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.
And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.
Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.
I feel like I have to have a voice.
But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.
And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.
I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
I really, really like writing songs.
If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, 'cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface, and that could be causing earthquakes. It's like we're giving the earth arthritis. I don't know if that sounds crazy.
Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.
New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want to come to New York if it looks like another strip mall.
It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.
I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.Collection: Couple
How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.Collection: Feminist
It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the world will survive." The arc of history is long, and the mess we're currently making is just a blip.Collection: Father
That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.Collection: Rocks
The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.Collection: Looks
You have to leave room for the other person's ego.Collection: Ego
To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.Collection: Artist
I think that people in general, whether they are male or female, who are inhibited by the clichés of what women are or what men are, really don't like themselves. Because personality traits are not necessarily sexual.Collection: Men
That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the idea of the voice of the people, it had an essence to it which was socially motivated. Not that I want to change to world, you know? But it was sort of relevant to real life, it involved the real essence of poetry or the real essence of fine art. But it was also entertainment. That was the real vitality.Collection: Art
I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.Collection: Mystic