Quotes from Debbie Harry

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Drugs aren't always about feeling good. Many times they're about feeling less.

he got his testosterone in a tizzy

It's funny how the entertainment industry was so scared of hip-hop. Chris and I were so turned on by it. Chris was so buzzed that he talked to some people in the music industry about all these great bands. Every one of them told him that rap was a fad and it would soon go away.

For those times when I wanted to blank out parts of my life or when I was dealing with some depression, there was nothing better than heroin. Nothing.

Coincidence...Coincidence came calling for me big-time in the early seventies. Coincidence: it's supposed to mean just these random, disconnected events that concur or collide. But coincidence is not that at all. It's the stuff that's meant to be.

We live in a disposable, transient-feeling world and usually after five years you go on to the next thing, maybe now even less than five years.

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