We are just the most twisted, sick, hilarious people that I know.

Being in a band, whether your female or male, is really hard.

I'm working in theater. I did not grow up loving or even knowing anything about it, except for 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Tommy.' But I love it. It's such a great collaborative thing.

I've been married for 23 years to Jeff McDonald from Redd Kross.

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

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.

I was more of a surfer girl and never really that punky.

The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.

I don't think we fully understood what the implications could be when we found out we were doing 'SNL.'

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

There was something about the chemistry of the band and we would feed off each other. It was a gang of girls unleashed.

The odds were against us being an all-female garage band from California.

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

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.

I don't want to be part of a band unless it's fun.

The worst thing about the music business is the business part of it. Business has nothing whatever to do with writing, playing and performing.

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.

I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.

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

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.

I love working with artists who know exactly what they want.

We're a band and we just happen to be chicks, that's the way we've always thought of ourselves.

We don't necessarily want to do a biopic. Mostly because it's like, 'Big deal. Band gets together and gets big. Then the excesses come and they fall apart.'

I still love playing live, and I love doing records, but writing songs is my main thing.

I'm only speaking for myself, but having a kid has put everything else in my life in perspective.

Having a kid is getting a certain kind of freedom in a way because you can't be self-obsessed anymore.

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.

It wasn't much fun being Charlotte Go-Go. I like being Charlotte Caffey better.

We didn't necessarily write about women's rights or talk about it. We were just doing it.

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

I saw Blondie open for the Ramones, and I remember being really impressed by Debbie Harry and her awkwardness.

I think the thing is we really have a great time playing on stage. I think that people really feel that. So I guess we put on a good show.

I do believe the music keeps us coming back. We really enjoy playing it.

I think the older we get, the better we perform.

I've never been a great lead guitar player.

One of the problems we had was trying to live up to this bubbly image. All the music was supposed to be bubbly. That's what people expected from us. But that was very limiting.

Being in a band with guys didn't feel like what I should be doing.

The Go-Go's were a frothy pop band. I wanted to do music that had a harder edge.

In some ways, we were very innocent. And in other ways, we were just rock 'n' roll girls on the loose.

We were a bonded group of girls, and it was us against the world and us against the odds.

In the year after we signed with I.R.S. we made a record, started our own tour, toured with the Police, and our record went to No. 1. It was insane.

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.

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day always says we were influences on him, because he does melodic but distorted, like what we were doing. The Ramones were doing it. We were doing it. The Buzzcocks, all those bands.

It's amazing, seeing people of all different ages singing lyrics to songs we wrote when we were so young and thought we knew everything.

In reality - and we've always said this - yes, we are girls, women, but, first and foremost, we're musicians and we're songwriters.

We would go to photo sessions and it was just the most ridiculous stuff. It was like, 'Here, lick on these lollipops.' And we're like, 'What?!' It was horrifying. But we would laugh.

The spirit of the Go-Go's is fun.

We are just a rock and pop band, that's what we are. And I believe we recorded the records to feature the songs rather than it being a giant production.

The '80s, no matter what kind of wacky fashion or whatever else that went on in the '80s, the songs that came out of it, there was really great songwriting, in my opinion.

Actually going on tour is like the break in the year that I go away and do something different and come back.