Creativity Quote by Debbie Harry

Desire, in Debbie Harry's telling, is less a choice than a glitch in the wiring. "Always" and "can't help it" turn romance into compulsion: you don't select the bad boy, your system selects him for you. The line is doing two things at once: confessing attraction to danger while pre-emptively refusing moral responsibility for it. That's not just coyness; it's a neat inversion of the usual cautionary tale. Instead of "avoid the devil", Harry frames the devilish streak as an almost chemical lure, a hook you swallow before you even see the barb.

The phrase "a little bit of the devil" is crucial. It's not pure villainy, not true harm; it's stylized menace, the kind that reads as charisma. Harry's world - the CBGB-era downtown scene, punk and new wave's flirtation with risk, outsiders, and nightlife - built an entire aesthetic around that controlled burn. "Rascal" softens the threat into something mischievous, even sexy, suggesting the danger is partly performance. You're not dating Satan; you're dating someone who knows how to look like trouble under stage lights.

There's also a gendered dare hiding in the cadence. A woman naming her appetite for "the guy" with darkness in him pushes back against the expectation that female desire should be prudent, rehabilitative, or apologetic. It's a shrug that doubles as a challenge: stop asking for purity, start admitting what actually pulls people in.