Debbie Harry Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

At this point I might not be the biggest star in the world and I may not be the greatest artist in the world, but I have achieved a very wide spread of interesting experiences. And I'm very happy about that.

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

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

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

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

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

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

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.

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.

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.

Being hot never hurts!

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

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.

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

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.

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

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

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

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.

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.

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

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

I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do that. I'd like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that's about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can't remember them.

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.

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.

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

I feel like I have to have a voice.

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.

I really, really like writing songs.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

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.

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

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

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

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

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.

I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.