Charlotte Caffey Quotes

For about two years, I was a little wild. I was out partying, having adventures.

It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.

I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling.

It's an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you're a five-year-old, you don't pay any attention to what anyone thinks of you. You just sort of are in your skin.

I was a pretty wild kid, and I probably lived 48 years in my first 20. But I always seemed to have a true line of faith for some reason.

Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Somehow, this child is gonna show me what to do, because I thought maybe I'll grow up by then, but no. I still just want to play around in my Crocs and tutus, so I don't know.

I'll give up smoking when I die, and I'll settle down when I die. Until then, I'm gonna have a good time.

That's the authentic punk dance. It's like a child dizzy on lemonade.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

Even when I'm old and grey I'll probably be cruising around and bunny-hopping and stuff. In the words of the Descendents, "I don't want to grow up."

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.