Song Quotes by Charlotte Caffey

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

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— Charlotte Caffey

Above and beyond anything, we didn't have lives outside of the band.

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— Charlotte Caffey

I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.

— Charlotte Caffey

I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it.

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— Charlotte Caffey

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— Charlotte Caffey

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

All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that…

— Charlotte Caffey

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

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

One of the problems we had was trying to live up to this bubbly image. All the music was supposed to be…

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— Charlotte Caffey

I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small…

— Charlotte Caffey

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day always says we were influences on him, because he does melodic but distorted, like what we…

— Charlotte Caffey

I ran to get my cassette recorder and sang 'We Got the Beat' into the recorder to document it. I knew I…

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— Charlotte Caffey

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

— 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…

— Charlotte Caffey