Deborah: (on posing in Playboy) My real fans have grown with me, so they respect my choices. Those other people want me to be 16 forever, maybe because they don't want to admit that they're getting older too. But that's their issue. Deal with it, people.
Deborah: (on writing a fan letter to George Michael, 1987) I know I would have died if I would have gotten a response, but I didn't. I understand that he must get 1,000 letters a day.
Deborah: (from 1987) Some people don't realize what's involved. They think you wake up one morning and find an envelope with Ed McMahon's picture on it saying 'You have won a recording contract.' What they don't realize is that how much work you put in you get back.
Deborah: (from 1987) I'm not an untouchable person. I often pull people on stage to dance. Or, I'll jump into the audience in the middle of a number like 'Only In My Dreams'.
Deborah: (from 1987) My friends and I are kinda like your typical all-American teens. We have fun going to movies, malls, and just hanging out at someone's house. They haven't changed towards me, 'cause I haven't changed towards them. Everyone has their own interests, you know, some of the guys are into their sports - we all go cheer them on. I have friends that are into tennis and we'll go to their matches. So, I'll perform and my friends will come see me. It's all kind of the same thing.
Deborah: (from her America On-Line chat on 3/27/96) What you are is God's gift to you and what you become is your gift to God.
Deborah: I tend to get into something, like two feet and jump in, you know, she's always kind of going, 'Come on, Deb, it's your career, slow down, take it easy.'
Deborah: What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.
Deborah: This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to be able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.
Deborah: The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.
Deborah: (referring to Christina Aguilera's song "Genie in a Bottle") You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
Deborah: There's a lot of real talent in the world. Problem is...they're ugly.
Deborah: Once I started writing songs, though, there was this feeling of, 'Oh my God, what a cool thing to be able to say to someone, 'You've never heard this before. And I know you haven't, because I wrote it.' I felt like, 'Wow, if I could present something new to people, that would be the ultimate thing.'
Deborah: And I always had people telling me, 'You can't do this. You're from Long Island, how do you expect to be on Broadway? You can't go into the city and be on Broadway.' What do you mean? It's an hour away! Of course I can be on Broadway someday.
Deborah: I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.
Deborah: I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
Deborah: Kids can see you don't have to have a sexy costume or shave your head or do crazy things to be successful. You just work at it and be normal.
"The Flunky", the musical written by Jimmy Van Patten, with music by Deborah, and lyrics by Deborah and Jimmy Van Patten, is now in pre-production. It is set to go into Workshop possibly by late fall.
Deborah was on the hit list of celebrity killer Robert John Bardo, the person who succeeded in killing My Sister Sam's Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989.
Deborah starred in the 2004 TV-movie, Celeste in the City.
Deborah appeared in the films My Girlfriend's Boyfriend and My X-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception.
Deborah currently drives a Mini Cooper.
Deborah won an award as Rock Producer of the Year at the 1990 American Songwriter Awards.
Deborah's song "Lost in your eyes" won an award for Song of the Year at the 1990 New York Music Awards.
Deborah was co-ASCAP Songwriter of the Year for 1989, tied with Bruce Springsteen.
Deborah's Out of the Blue won an award for Debut Album of the Year at the 1989 New York Music Awards.
Deborah has one authorized biography, titled Between the lines, whose name comes from an unreleased song on her first album Out of the blue. The book is long out of print.
Deborah is the former spokesperson for the Leadsinger Karaoke microphone.
In Deborah's first attempt at the role of Eponine in Les Miserables, she lost out because she was too young (she was 15). She would later get that same role for a limited engagement in 1991-92.
Deborah graduated with honors from Calhoun High School in Merrick, Long Island, in 1988.
In the late '80s Deborah was the spokesmodel for Natural Wonder Cosmetics.
Deborah has been the composer and lyricist for the musical Skirts, something she has been working on since her Electric Youth days. A song from the unfinished musical called "Sex" appeared on her latest studio album, Colored Lights.
Deborah was a cheerleader in high school.
Although most well known as a blonde, Deborah's natural hair color is brown.
Deborah is skilled at playing piano, programming synthesizers and drum machines, guitar and flute. However, she is best known for playing the piano.
Deborah has created two independent record labels: Espiritu, under which her album Deborah was released, and Golden Egg, under which M.Y.O.B. was released.
Deborah just released a single with fellow '80s pop idol Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block, called "Say Goodbye." It debuted at #35 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart, and is her first appearance on the charts in over thirteen years.
David Lovering of The Pixies wrote a song named "Make believe," Deborah is the subject of this song.
Deborah's album "Electric Youth" and her first single from that album, "Lost in your eyes," were simultaneously #1 on their respective Billboard charts.
Deborah was an extra in the 1984 movie Ghostbusters. She is at the table with the balloons in Tavern on the Green when Rick Moranis's character is attacked by the monster dog.
Deborah is 5'6" tall.
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