Benji Madden Quotes

Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.

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• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Guy

• My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Mom

• You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

  

  Dan Savage
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • Law
  • Best

• I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Need
  • Something
  • Mature

• Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Long
  • Amazing
  • Media

• I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Literature
  • Italian
  • Heroes

• The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Science
  • Value

• The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Value

• When someone's really good at encapsulating human emotion and putting it out in a form that can reach a variety of people, that's going to have a big effect when he's no longer there.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • People
  • Good

• For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.

  

  Jay Parini
  • People

• Never take a loan against your retirement! When you pay interest against your retirement, you cost yourself interest.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Retirement

• I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Cool

• There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • People
  • Political

• I love doing my own stunts. I'd love to do a full-on period sword-fighting piece where I get to show off with fighting and horses - I'm up for it.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Up
  • Fighting
  • Period

• That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity.

  

  Christy Romano
  • Business

• The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • God
  • Art
  • Fire

• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Band

• At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• The consistency - either the theme from record to record, or the band, the different musicians - it really varies. So if I get criticism, I don't worry about that, because I'm still being creative.

  

  Jason Molina
  • Different
  • Band
  • Worry

• We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Band
  • Teenage