100 Quotes by Charlotte Caffey

We were naive in a lot of ways, but that was part of the charm. We were very young.

I ran to get my cassette recorder and sang 'We Got the Beat' into the recorder to document it. I knew I had written something special. It took two minutes. I didn't labor on the lyrics. It's a simple song, which goes back to the '60s, when I had my ears glued to the radio for the Stones, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys.

People at the record labels were like, 'We don't want to sign you, you're girls' - sexist, ridiculous nonsense.

We struggled for years before we got that record deal. It was tough because we were girls. People were slamming doors in our faces for years.

Personally speaking, I think the Beatles were our biggest influence.

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

There's been way too much talk about all our problems.

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.

What's the essence of the Go-Go's? Great melodies, guitar hooks, driving drums. All of that.