Jane Wiedlin Quotes

I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again.

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.

A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction and movies and books. So I go to them either as a celebrity, or as a fan, because I'm a big sci-fi geek.

I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.

I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you love me,' they're boring. If I'm going to write a love song, it's going to be a little bit tortuous.

The Go-Go's were like my first babies.

When I was 15, I never thought I'd live to see 21. And then I became 21, and I'm like, 'I'll never live to see 30.'

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.

Believe me, I've totally blown any kind of so-called reputation I may have had. I really don't care. I think that's one of the joys of getting older; you just stop caring about things like that.

What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

The whole idea that someone should not be able to marry who they love based on their gender and their preference is ridiculous.

Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I always thought the more personal a song was, the more people would want to hear it.

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!