I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
No one has done what we've done. We're the first female band to have a No. 1 record. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
Above and beyond anything, we didn't have lives outside of the band. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
Personally speaking, I think the Beatles were our biggest influence. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
One of the problems we had was trying to live up to this bubbly image. All the music was supposed to be… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
We are just a rock and pop band, that's what we are. And I believe we recorded the records to feature the… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
I wrote 'We Got the Beat,' which is a fun song, and people equate us with fun, but there's so much more… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
People at the record labels were like, 'We don't want to sign you, you're girls' - sexist, ridiculous nonsense. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
The worst thing about the music business is the business part of it. Business has nothing whatever to do with writing, playing… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
I saw Blondie open for the Ramones, and I remember being really impressed by Debbie Harry and her awkwardness. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
I ran to get my cassette recorder and sang 'We Got the Beat' into the recorder to document it. I knew I… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day always says we were influences on him, because he does melodic but distorted, like what we… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
We're a band and we just happen to be chicks, that's the way we've always thought of ourselves. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
It's amazing, seeing people of all different ages singing lyrics to songs we wrote when we were so young and thought we… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
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… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share
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… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share
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. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share
I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share
Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share
My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share
We were a bonded group of girls, and it was us against the world and us against the odds. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share
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… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share
We didn't want to change who we are. We're not going to sit there and go, 'Let's be a rap band now.' — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share
Actually going on tour is like the break in the year that I go away and do something different and come back. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share
In some ways, we were very innocent. And in other ways, we were just rock 'n' roll girls on the loose. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share
