Go-Go's Quotes

Belinda Carlisle: "I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me."

Jane Wiedlin: "I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has it's ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other."


Charlotte Caffey: "I felt like an ordinary person having an extraordinary experience."

Gina Schock: "The true American success story, that's what the whole thing really is."

Kathy Valentine: "I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it."

Belinda Carlisle: "You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable and to be viable as a woman."

Jane Wiedlin: I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to 60's pop music, like the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff."

Gina Schock: "When I joined the band, they were more just having fun and were doing what everybody else was doing in L.A., all their buddies had started bands, they had just picked up their instruments."

Kathy Valentine: "We always have a good time playing, and I'm glad it shows."

Jane Wiedlin: "If I was in charge, I'd keep doing the Go-Go's forever, but it's a band, so everyone has their say."

Michael Stipe Quotes

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did, and didn't, in the 1960's.

I wouldn't survive ten minutes on American Idol.

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

Radiohead are so good they scare me.



New York can do that to you. You come here to change the world but you end up changing yourself.

I grew up in an era where the Banana Splits, the Archies and the Monkees  were the music that I listened to. The Beatles were the music that was playing in the background.

We made mistakes, but they were ours, and that kind of pride of ownership, whether it`s the really good stuff or the bad and embarrassing stuff, is a really good feeling.

Lately I`ve been listening to Q-tip almost non-stop. And Bjork, and Thom Yorke from Radiohead, Natalie Merchant, Grant-Lee Phillips and Courtney Love and Bono. A lot of those people are people that I know and have friendships with. And when they do something great it really challenges me to kind of one-up them.

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

Monkees Quotes

Davy Jones: "Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axel Rose stole my dance!"

Peter Tork: "Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins."

Mike Nesmith: (On rejoining the Monkees) "It would be kind of like Ronald Reagan making another movie."

Micky Dolenz: "The best advice I've ever given or received, in or out of the entertainment business, is as follows: get a good lawyer."

Davy Jones: "I keep hearing that any excuse you can give for a Monkees reunion is a good excuse, which doesn't bother me at all, since I couldn't agree more."

Micky Dolenz: "The best (advice) was to never take myself too seriously and never start believing you are the person that people are seeing up on the screen."

Peter Tork: "Pop music, disco music and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away."

Mike Nesmith: "I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me."

Davy Jones: "I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them."

Peter Tork: "Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out of those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music."

Davy Jones: "The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out."