Quotes from Debbie Harry


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


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


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


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.


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


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.


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.


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


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 really, really like writing songs.


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.


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


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


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


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.


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.


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.