“I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over her…” — Debbie Harry

Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.

Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.

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

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