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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I've never been a great lead guitar player.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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