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I always want to be touring.
We used to be such prima donnas.
Sometimes the recognition gets weird.
I can't see us getting into, like, long solos.
When we play live, we go back to our punk roots.
Commercial success certainly helps pay the bills.
We've been lucky with our music; people have liked it.
Money, ego and drugs - that's what caused the demise of our band.
We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.
To influence people to do something they love, it's a wonderful thing.
You had to fight every inch of the way, that's what made us trailblazers.
I don't want someone taking up half my time. I don't need to get my heart broken.
So I had an operation. So what? If I die, I die. I'm more interested in my music.
It wouldn't be in the typical fashion of the Go-Go's that anything isn't a struggle.
They're my sisters. We don't always like each other, but we'll always love each other.
We may have broken up at the height of our fame, but it was not the height of our success.
When I left Baltimore, I told everyone, 'Next time you see me, I'm going to be a rock star.'
Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.
Being in this band is like being in high school all over again. We're like a bunch of little maniacs.
We've had that carefree, light-hearted image of fun, fun, fun. Everyone knows it's not really like that.
You know, I've always wanted this, to be playing music and making money and all. But, it is really weird.
First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.
I always thought: 'Oh my God, we are going to be famous, we're going to be huge.' We were 21, 22 years old.
Every time I see a story about the Go-Go's, it sounds like a gossip column about our health or our love life.
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.
We got a thumbs-down from every label. But you gotta keep the faith, man. You gotta hang in there and be tenacious.
I'd keep the bay windows open, and neighbors would walk by and say, 'Oh, that's Gina playing music.' They were fascinated.
We made some mistakes, but we made some great strides too. Certainly we changed the way that record labels looked at women.
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!'
Growing up, getting older, your age - you get to the point where you're comfortable in your own skin, you know who you are.
Most companies are out to make money. They aren't worried about anything except whether they can buy their new BMW next month.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
When I was much younger I tried to play guitar and bass first. Drums were just the easiest thing for me to play. I picked it up really quickly.
I had decided on L.A. because I felt like I could handle the cost of living out there. It was just too difficult in San Francisco and New York.
We were constantly together. Anybody who had a boyfriend had to go through the Go-Go's first. It was a little too close for comfort after a while.
When I was in Baltimore, I played in several different bands, doing four sets a night, two sets of originals, two sets of covers, that kind of thing.
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'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.
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.
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.
All these years later there's still something magical when we play. Who would've thought when we started out that 40 years later we'd still be together and people would still be interested.
The fun image is what we project onstage, because our music is dance music. But it's not what the group is about We're very serious about our music and the band and producing good quality songs.
Everything happened relatively quickly in our rise to the top. But we were like robots. We were told what to do and we just did it. We didn't have time to look inside ourselves. It was all just a constant whirlwind.
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!
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.
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.