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The spirit of the Go-Go's is fun.
I daydream about romance and stuff.
I've never been a great lead guitar player.
I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.
I think we get a lot of recognition and it's great.
I love working with artists who know exactly what they want.
I've been married for 23 years to Jeff McDonald from Redd Kross.
We are just the most twisted, sick, hilarious people that I know.
Being in a band with guys didn't feel like what I should be doing.
Personally speaking, I think the Beatles were our biggest influence.
My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.
The odds were against us being an all-female garage band from California.
We were pretty crappy in the beginning. We really didn't sound that great.
We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.
It wasn't much fun being Charlotte Go-Go. I like being Charlotte Caffey better.
We thought we'd last forever. Then, of course, we didn't, and that was shocking.
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.
Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.
Here's the thing about The Go-Go's: Onstage, any moment could be a total train wreck.
We were anything but 'America's sweethearts.' On the inside we were total sassy rebels.
I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it.
I still love playing live, and I love doing records, but writing songs is my main thing.
We were a bonded group of girls, and it was us against the world and us against the odds.
There's definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things.
What's the essence of the Go-Go's? Great melodies, guitar hooks, driving drums. All of that.
We're a band and we just happen to be chicks, that's the way we've always thought of ourselves.
I'm only speaking for myself, but having a kid has put everything else in my life in perspective.
Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.
In some ways, we were very innocent. And in other ways, we were just rock 'n' roll girls on the loose.
I don't think we fully understood what the implications could be when we found out we were doing 'SNL.'
If we were all happy and getting along every second of the day, we'd probably make some schmaltzy record.
I think it took us being apart to really understand... who we were as Individuals, outside of the Go-Go's.
Actually going on tour is like the break in the year that I go away and do something different and come back.
I saw Blondie open for the Ramones, and I remember being really impressed by Debbie Harry and her awkwardness.
Ah, it's awesome learning about theater, but it's a completely different musical landscape from rock and roll.
People at the record labels were like, 'We don't want to sign you, you're girls' - sexist, ridiculous nonsense.
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.
To all musicians - forget gender - to all musicians, it's about - do what makes you happy. Just go for it, you know?
The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.
Going to rehearsals was too depressing, and missing rehearsals was also depressing, so it was like a vicious circle.
I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.
There was something about the chemistry of the band and we would feed off each other. It was a gang of girls unleashed.
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.
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.
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.
Oh, everything we did was completely organic - from the way we looked to the way we sounded, the way we played - everything.
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.
In the old days I never thought about money - but then, of course, the clothes were so ugly in the '80s there was nothing I wanted.
In reality - and we've always said this - yes, we are girls, women, but, first and foremost, we're musicians and we're songwriters.