Quotes from Gina Schock

Everybody's been blessed with something, and my gift is my timing. Let's face it, it's all about keeping time and having a groove.

We're family, like it or not. I can't tell you how many times we were going to break up for this or that, and then something would just bring us back together.

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

Everybody was apprehensive about a documentary. When we're all dead and gone, we don't want to leave something that is not going to be representing the band in a true and honest way that shows everything that's important.

You had to fight every inch of the way, that's what made us trailblazers.

We talk about, 'Wow, thank God that we were out when we were, because it was much easier then.' There wasn't paparazzi following you every step of your day, every move you make.

The only problem is, that the musicians, the guys, their careers can go from the time they're 18 'till they're 50 years old and when they get wrinkles, they're 'character lines.' But when girls get 'em, they're wrinkles!

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.

I always want to be touring.

We definitely were a punk band. When we got in with our producer, Richard Gottehrer, he slowed everything down so that you could actually hear what Belinda was singing.

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

Growing up, getting older, your age - you get to the point where you're comfortable in your own skin, you know who you are.

I mean, all the record companies said no, you know, say 10 record companies, whatever. But one said yes, and it took only one to make The Go-Go's happened.

We've had that carefree, light-hearted image of fun, fun, fun. Everyone knows it's not really like that.

In The Go-Go's, my philosophy is that I contribute whatever the song requires. I never think, 'What can I put in here to show off the latest trick that I just picked up?' What I think is, 'What's required from me as a drummer to make this a better song?'

When I left Baltimore I put everything I owned in my dad's pick-up truck and drove cross-country to make it as a rockstar in L.A.

We always thought if 'Beauty and the Beat' sold even 100,000 copies, we'd be real happy and a successful group, so when it reached a million... Hey, we just laughed about it.

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

I just don't like to be called a 'woman' or a 'lady' because I don't feel like either a woman or a lady. I feel like a musician.

I went to see the Go-Go's on a Saturday night in '78 and had the best time. I was so serious about the way I played but they were having a blast. They weren't quite ready, but man there was something special. The girls just needed someone to push 'em a little and I eventually pushed.

I'll tell you, girl fans were actually pushier than the guys. The guys got scared, because when the five of us were together, we were out of control. If I were in the room with the five of us, I'd leave. It's like a five-headed monster.

It wouldn't be in the typical fashion of the Go-Go's that anything isn't a struggle.

Money can be pretty ugly.

When I left Baltimore, I told everyone, 'Next time you see me, I'm going to be a rock star.'