100 Quotes by Charlotte Caffey

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.

I had written or cowritten eight of the ten songs on 'Beauty and the Beat,' and I had written our biggest hit, 'We Got the Beat.' How was I going to top all of that?

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.

Legendary photographer Annie Leibowitz persuaded us to pose in our underwear. When the magazine hit the stands we were horrified to see the caption 'Go-Go's Put Out.' Regardless, I was extremely excited to see us at every newsstand on every corner, our faces on the cover of 'Rolling Stone!'

When you're on stage and you got a great audience, that makes the show that much better for the band.

Oh, everything we did was completely organic - from the way we looked to the way we sounded, the way we played - everything.

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

Look; being in this band, of course it would be great, yeah. But, I mean, I don't live and breathe every minute of every day thinking like, 'Oh, my God. We have to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.'

The energy between all the girls - we were hysterical together. That energy could go really bad and it could be so hateful and horrible, and then it could go really good and we'd write really good songs.