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quoted from the "Platinum Collection" booklet - 1994
Nigel Harrison: It was the first song I wrote with Debbie. I had this portastudio that I bought years earlier in Japan, a Sony Rhythm 9000. It had this cheesy drum machine built in. I had come up with this trippy psychadelic surf piece. Jimmy encouraged me to play it for the band. At one point Robert Fripp came down to jam at the Parallel Lines rehearsals in New York. He didn't know what we were going to do with this musical piece. Years later, after seeing him at a gig, he wondered what ever happened to the wonderful piece we jammed on. I told him it turned into "One Way Or Another" and he was shocked.
Frank Infante: Fripp was horrified that it turned into that song!
Jimmy Destri: The original "One Way Or Another" had this guitar line in it. It started out with a spaghetti western guitar.
quoted from the book "Deborah Harry: Platinum Blonde - A Portrait By Cathay Che" - 1999
question: "One Way Or Another?"
answer: That one is about this stalker boyfriend I had. I broke up with him and he became a stalker and he was really good at it. He worked at a job where he was inhaling chemical fumes all day, and then he would drink at night, so he'd get really insane and the he'd start after me
question: You mean call you every hour on the hour or physically came after you?
answer: Both, I mean, everything. He was so wild, I had to move out of New Jersey! So it might have been the first stalker song ever written, although I don't think they even called it stalking in those days. I think we just called them pests.
