100 Quotes by Charlotte Caffey

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    I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.

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    No one has done what we've done. We're the first female band to have a No. 1 record.

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    We were approached by Alison Ellwood about the idea of doing a documentary. At first, we were a bit nervous because we didn't want it come across as a salacious 'Behind The Music' kind of thing. Alison did such a great job. It really puts perspective on things.

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    A lot of it was really, really fun, but at some point, things started getting weird. We didn't allow each other to breathe. We didn't really have a sense of ourselves individually. We were very insecure... We were really threatened by the thought of 'Oh my God, what if someone goes off and does something outside the band?'

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    While we were touring for 'Vacation,' we weren't aware that the record wasn't doing well. It was a good tour, but the album didn't go over with critics.

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    We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

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    Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.

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