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.
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.
But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
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.
Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.