Quotes from Charlotte Caffey

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

The Go-Go's were a frothy pop band. I wanted to do music that had a harder edge.

It wasn't much fun being Charlotte Go-Go. I like being Charlotte Caffey better.

The spirit of the Go-Go's is fun.

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

We had that horrible experience with 'Behind the Music' where they just made it all salacious. That's not about the band - that's a soap opera. If you're together with a spouse or a partner for 40 years, you're going to have arguments. But if you're with four other people, you're going have exponentially that many more things happen.

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.

I've never been a great lead guitar player.

We were anything but 'America's sweethearts.' On the inside we were total sassy rebels.

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

We are just a rock and pop band, that's what we are. And I believe we recorded the records to feature the songs rather than it being a giant production.

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

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.

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

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.

We were pretty crappy in the beginning. We really didn't sound that great.

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.

Here's the thing about The Go-Go's: Onstage, any moment could be a total train wreck.

In the year after we signed with I.R.S. we made a record, started our own tour, toured with the Police, and our record went to No. 1. It was insane.

We were up for a Grammy, we sold millions of records and we toured the world I don't know how many times. It was insane.

We're definitely hanging up the touring shoes but we'll do other things. We'll do an odd gig here and there but going out and actually touring for a month or two, we're not doing that anymore.

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.

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

In some ways, we were very innocent. And in other ways, we were just rock 'n' roll girls on the loose.