Charlotte Caffey

“I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.”

“No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.”

“It's like our little thing: you can take the girl out of the punk, but you can't take the punk out of the girl.”

“The odds were against us being an all-female garage band from California.”

“I don't think we fully understood what the implications could be when we found out we were doing 'SNL.'”

“I think the thing is we really have a great time playing on stage. I think that people really feel that. So I guess we put on a good show.”

“To all musicians - forget gender - to all musicians, it's about - do what makes you happy. Just go for it, you know?”

“Having a kid is getting a certain kind of freedom in a way because you can't be self-obsessed anymore.”

“I had written or cowritten eight of the ten songs on 'Beauty and the Beat,' and I had written our biggest hit, 'We Got the Beat.' How was I going to top all of that?”

“I think it took us being apart to really understand... who we were as Individuals, outside of the Go-Go's.”

“I don't want to be part of a band unless it's fun.”

“In April of 1978 I was asked to join an all-girl band that was just taking shape, The Go-Go's. It was one of those moments in my life - and there were many - when I just blurted out 'Yes!'”

“We had so many obstacles. We had a lot of sexism and misogyny, there's a lot of things that were against us. But we've just pushed forward and we showed everybody.”

“Legendary photographer Annie Leibowitz persuaded us to pose in our underwear. When the magazine hit the stands we were horrified to see the caption 'Go-Go's Put Out.' Regardless, I was extremely excited to see us at every newsstand on every corner, our faces on the cover of 'Rolling Stone!'”

“I think we get a lot of recognition and it's great.”

“We're really funny, focused, and we put on a great live show.”

“Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.”

“When we first started out, we made a vow to ourselves we wouldn't do it anymore if it wasn't fun. Well, we keep getting back together, so it must still be fun for everyone in it.”

“The worst thing about the music business is the business part of it. Business has nothing whatever to do with writing, playing and performing.”

“Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day always says we were influences on him, because he does melodic but distorted, like what we were doing. The Ramones were doing it. We were doing it. The Buzzcocks, all those bands.”