Quotes from Charlotte Caffey

Ah, it's awesome learning about theater, but it's a completely different musical landscape from rock and roll.

All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that years later we'd be selling out shows.

We thought we'd last forever. Then, of course, we didn't, and that was shocking.

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 '80s, no matter what kind of wacky fashion or whatever else that went on in the '80s, the songs that came out of it, there was really great songwriting, in my opinion.

We don't necessarily want to do a biopic. Mostly because it's like, 'Big deal. Band gets together and gets big. Then the excesses come and they fall apart.'

Personally speaking, I think the Beatles were our biggest influence.

If we would have had clear brains to take a break, instead of breaking up, we would have left room for balance in our lives.

We really broke down some doors for women and for musicians in general. It was just go out and form a band and don't care what anyone thinks.

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.

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

We're a band and we just happen to be chicks, that's the way we've always thought of ourselves.

I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small group of artists, misfits and weirdos, where everyone was welcomed and encouraged to express themselves.

I daydream about romance and stuff.

I went through an extreme depression.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

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.

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

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.

We were approached by Alison Ellwood about the idea of doing a documentary. At first, we were a bit nervous because we didn't want it come across as a salacious 'Behind The Music' kind of thing. Alison did such a great job. It really puts perspective on things.

I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.

I saw Blondie open for the Ramones, and I remember being really impressed by Debbie Harry and her awkwardness.

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.

Actually going on tour is like the break in the year that I go away and do something different and come back.