Deborah Harry: I wish I would have invented sex.
(about the group's many ups and downs) Deborah Harry: "It's been a standing joke for years, every time something weird would happen we would say, 'It's the curse of Blondie.' A lot of people take it seriously, but it's silly. It's sort of a Vincent Price, horror movie type title. I think it's lucky.
Deborah Harry: I could be a housewife. I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.
Deborah was considered for the role of Pris in Blade Runner (1982) but Daryl Hannah was chosen instead.
Debbie has done television commercials, including ones for Sara Lee, Revlon, and Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans.
Debbie has done many benefit concerts for AIDS awareness.
In 1999, Debbie and other members of Blondie filed a breach of contract lawsuit against EMI Records, stating that EMI failed to adhere to royalty rates established in 1996 for the band's 1977-1982 output for EMI predecessor Chrysalis Records.
Debbie's recording label at the time, EMI, almost didn't release the single of Blondie's #1 hit, "Heart Of Glass," because the executives believed it was "too disco," coming out in 1980, when disco popularity was fading out.
Debbie appeared on "The Muppet Show" on the February 21, 1981 episode singing "One Way Or Another," with Muppets dressed in black and white business suits, the same public style of her Blondie male bandmates at that time.
Debbie dyed her hair red for the 1983 film Videodrome, to avoid comparisons of her Blondie character with her role in that film. She has recently gone back to this look. (2006)
Debbie worked as a waitress at Max's Kansas City nightclub, before going into singing. Max's was a reknowned counter-culture/underground meeting place in the late 1960s - early 1970s.
Debbie hung out at CBGBs in the 1970s, a New York City club that was a focal point for the growth of the punk rock movement in America.
Debbie joined a girl group, The Stilettos, in the early 1970s, and their back-up group included Chris Stein, her future boyfriend and Blondie guitarist.
Debbie did a voice part for the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as a cab dispatcher.
In the E! True Hollywood Story of Blondie, Deborah said that she was once attacked by a man who she was able to fight off. She later found out that man was serial killer Ted Bundy.
She was ranked #12 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll.
She has admitted to getting a face lift.
In 1998, Deborah and her band "Blondie" reunited and released their first album since their 1982 breakup.
Her band "Blondie" broke up in 1982.
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