Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.

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

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

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

Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.

It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the world will survive." The arc of history is long, and the mess we're currently making is just a blip.