Charlotte Caffey Quotes

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.

When I was in The Scream, I thought I'd be around for 30 years playing with The Scream guys. Who knew I was gonna get a call from Motley?

After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.

Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.

So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen.

The Nazz survived for 18 months - that was my first taste of fame on some level and of the overall experience of being in a band. There are good and bad aspects, and I got to taste some of both, and, well, it's not as much fun as what you see in 'A Hard Day's Night,' let me just say that.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.

The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.

You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.

I won't join another band again.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits.

Being famous for fame's sake wasn't the goal when I co-founded the Go-Go's. I just wanted to sing and have a laugh.

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.