I wish I had invented sex.

I really, really like writing songs.

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.

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

[On actress Kirsten Dunst playing her in a proposed biographical film]: She`s a really sweet person. I`ve met with her a couple of times and hung out with her socially. She`s just a sweetie. She`s probably capable of a lot of things she hasn`t been asked to do yet, and doing something that`s sort of left of center would be great for her.

Performing in front of a camera is a new adventure for me. It`s a new and much more intellectual process. Music is more of the moment, more spiritual. It`s an event! (from an early 80s interview)

I know who I am, and it would be an insult to the Harrys. - on her refusal to locate her birth parents

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.

"The only person I really believe in is me."

"I could be a housewife... I guess I`ve vacumed a couple of times."

"I wish I had invented sex"

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

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

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

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

Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don`t see it.

Lately I`ve been believing that music predates speech.

I`m very proud of the fact that I was in two really interesting movies in the last year: one was Spun and the other was My Life Without Me.

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

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

I really, really like writing songs

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

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

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 feel like I have to have a voice.

I don`t mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it`s got my name on it.

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

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

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.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

And I wasn`t convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.

A lot of the bands were really, really different and a lot of them actually didn`t become huge but I think were hugely influential.