Debbie Harry and her band, Blondie, may have had their biggest hits in the 1980s with “The Tide Is High” and “Heart of Glass,” but Harry didn’t go the way of the Rubik’s Cube. Blondie currently holds the world record for having a top tune in the U.K. for three consecutive decades. Now, as the group records its ninth studio album and plans a summer tour with MORE (see more.com/blondie and blondie.net for details), Harry puts down the mic long enough to reminisce.

I don’t regret . . .
 . . . giving the band a name that’s tied to a specific (and fading) hair color.
I’ve had lots of different hair colors. Now it is brown, and I have some gray—unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it—with blond streaks.

 . . . experimenting with rap in the 1980 Blondie song “Rapture.”
But I regret not doing it better! [Laughs] The song is more like an homage to rap. Some rappers are really insulted by it, but others say that was the first rap they ever heard, so it’s a funny position to be in.

 . . . becoming a Playboy Club bunny in my younger years.
I thought it might be fun. It had a certain mystique. A lot of the women who worked there were actually career bunnies, and they did fabulously well. But I always intended to do music.

 . . . saying at one point that marriage was a form of slavery.
I think it still is, to a certain degree. Marriage ends up being about survival and economic stability, and that’s what put me off it. But now that I’m more independent, it doesn’t mean anything to me.

 . . . destroying dressing rooms and hotel rooms back in the day.
I only regret that I didn’t do it more!

 . . . rocking out in my sixties.
It’s probably physically more difficult, but mentally it’s a lot easier because [the band] used to waste so much energy on emotional or mental things. So it balances out. I’m lucky, lucky, lucky.