A biography for Charlotte Caffeyhasn’t been written yet.
“If we were all happy and getting along every second of the day, we'd probably make some schmaltzy record.”
“We would go to photo sessions and it was just the most ridiculous stuff. It was like, 'Here, lick on these lollipops.' And we're like, 'What?!' It was horrifying. But we would laugh.”
“We're not trying to impress anybody. We're not trying to change anybody's mind. We're just out there playing, and it's something we love.”
“I've been married for 23 years to Jeff McDonald from Redd Kross.”
“I was more of a surfer girl and never really that punky.”
“We did three records in three years and I don't know how many world tours, and we were just in our early 20s. And then we imploded.”
“We say, 'Wow, look at Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Their clothes were always so cool.' Maybe not Mick Jagger when he wore Spandex in the '80s.”
“I wrote 'We Got the Beat,' which is a fun song, and people equate us with fun, but there's so much more to us than that.”
“The Go-Go's were a frothy pop band. I wanted to do music that had a harder edge.”
“We were naive in a lot of ways, but that was part of the charm. We were very young.”
“Actually going on tour is like the break in the year that I go away and do something different and come back.”
“I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.”
“Being in a band, whether your female or male, is really hard.”
“I'm working in theater. I did not grow up loving or even knowing anything about it, except for 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Tommy.' But I love it. It's such a great collaborative thing.”
“We were a bonded group of girls, and it was us against the world and us against the odds.”
“There's been way too much talk about all our problems.”
“We're a band and we just happen to be chicks, that's the way we've always thought of ourselves.”
“I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it.”
“We didn't necessarily write about women's rights or talk about it. We were just doing it.”
“Oh, everything we did was completely organic - from the way we looked to the way we sounded, the way we played - everything.”