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

"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 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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"I really, really like writing songs."

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

"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."

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

"I feel like I have to have a voice."

"Lately I've been believing that music predates speech."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve."

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

"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."

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