Gina Schock

“In the beginning, we'd walk off stage and burst into tears, 'cause we were getting bottles thrown at us, and boys were spitting all over us.”

“Most people think that girls can't play because they're girls.”

“When we play live, we go back to our punk roots.”

“Sometimes the recognition gets weird.”

“There are a lot more women drummers now than there used to be, and I'd like to think that I'm part of the reason.”

“Every time I see a story about the Go-Go's, it sounds like a gossip column about our health or our love life.”

“For us, gender didn't come up. We were friends who happened to play together. We never said, 'Gee, we're an all-girl band!'”

“We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.”

“You know, you can only get beat up so much. And then you turn it around, and you're like, OK, we're not taking this anymore.”

“I wish that we all would have slowed down and savored the moment, loved what was happening and then appreciate it. It was going by so fast. Whatever the record told us to do, we'd do. We were just constantly touring, and then MTV happened and that kicked things up a notch for everybody.”

“Mick Jagger visited us backstage and told us how much he liked our show. Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts came back too, and they wanted to get their pictures taken with us. Bill Wyman knew our chart positions. I couldn't believe it.”

“Most companies are out to make money. They aren't worried about anything except whether they can buy their new BMW next month.”

“I always thought: 'Oh my God, we are going to be famous, we're going to be huge.' We were 21, 22 years old.”

“I just love being in this band.”

“They're my sisters. We don't always like each other, but we'll always love each other.”

“So I had an operation. So what? If I die, I die. I'm more interested in my music.”

“We showed record companies that they shouldn't be scared just because it's an all-girl band. We could play just as well as the boys.”

“When you have kids coming up to you saying, 'You're the reason I started playing drums,' it's the best feeling in the world.”

“Commercial success certainly helps pay the bills.”

“I can't see us getting into, like, long solos.”