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.

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.

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.

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

The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold allkinds of wares. Finally he said, “What a lot of things I don’t need!

There’s nothing wrong with fighting when you have no choice. As a matter of fact, it’s what you should do, but when you fight, fight to win.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

If the Earth has a soul, it swims in you.

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.