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

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 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.

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.

We are supposed to be different. Do not try to put round pegs in square holes. When people look at us, believe in yourself.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

As I die, and my life flashes before my eyes, I want to see who made faces at me when I turned my head. That's all I want to see.

A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.