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

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.

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

I liked the Beatles and all the folk rockers.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

We had that horrible experience with 'Behind the Music' where they just made it all salacious. That's not about the band - that's a soap opera. If you're together with a spouse or a partner for 40 years, you're going to have arguments. But if you're with four other people, you're going have exponentially that many more things happen.

Here's the thing about The Go-Go's: Onstage, any moment could be a total train wreck.

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