Debbie Harry Quotes

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

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.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

The only person I really believe in is me.

I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

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.

You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

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.

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.

I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it 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.

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.

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.

I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.

I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.

I don't really memorize every little thing I have to do because then I start to think about it too much! I like to keep it in the here and now and not what's coming up.

I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

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.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.