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

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

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.

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.

I may be heaven-sent, but I'm not perfect.

Holy sea turtles!" - Arabella Valli, The Equinox (Book Two of the Summer Solstice Series)

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Drive fast, take chances.  Interpretation: Don't worry about breaking the emotional speed limit.  Rush headlong into life and enjoy every moment of exhilaration!

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.

I really enjoy being an actor!