Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.

If you were a painter and a rock and roll musi­cian and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to suc­ceed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

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

I don't really memorize every little thing I have to do because then I start to think about it too much! I like to keep it in the here and now and not what's coming up.

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

I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.