"Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just f..." — Debbie Harry

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.

I feel like I have to have a voice.