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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I do know the effect that music still has on me – I’m completely vulnerable to it. I’m seduced by it.

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

Lately I’ve been believing that music predates speech.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

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.

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

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.

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 feel like I have to have a voice.

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.

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

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

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

I really, really like writing songs.

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