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.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

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

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creat­ing life. Or some kind of energy or anti­gravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.