American Quotes

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.

I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.

I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.

I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.

I don't mind dating younger men now.

I don't exercise.

When I see something, I go for it.

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

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 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 feel like I have to have a voice.

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.

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

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

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.