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

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

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

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

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.

I feel like I have to have a voice.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

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 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.

Being hot never hurts!

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

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.

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.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

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.

The only person I really believe in is me.

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.

Criticism is always hard to take - we musicians are sensitive. It's always hard when someone says something negative - but you try to learn to just let it roll off and not worry about it.

We like technology because we don't have to talk to anybody.

It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head.

The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.

It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.

There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.