Benji Madden Quotes
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I couldn't grow, like, any kind of facial hair at 17.
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When I have kids, they're definitely gonna work.
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I read all the reviews. I remember the first review I ever read about our band was, 'They'll be gone tomorrow; they'll be gone quicker than they came.'
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The Madden Brothers is definitely not a side project.
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It does feel really good when you play a new song, and it's the loudest singalong of the night. It means just as much when we're playing the old songs, and people are singing along to those, too.
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Australian bands are so self-deprecating - then they go on stage and blow every other band off the stage.
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The least punk thing I ever did was open a money market account. Blue chip stocks. Mutual funds. They're a very safe and dependable way to grow your money long-term.
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Novelty always sparks ideas.
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We want to give kids something to hope for. If one kid says, "Your cd helped get me through this year," that's all it takes.
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You've got to think, when we started our band, none of us had a computer until we were 21.
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Don't worry mom . I am still a virgin.
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That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.
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All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.
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All we can do is just think about what we can put into the world - not really kind of what we can get out of it.
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A lot of time, I have to be the person who just goes, 'Hey dude, don't even trip. Don't worry about it.'
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Good Charlotte fit in a lot of different genres - it's one of the coolest things our band has been able to do.
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What we're most known for is the catchy choruses and the big hooks.
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Hopefully, the people that would look at a Good Charlotte record and dismiss it for maybe what they think is a certain kind of content, if they do discover something meaningful, then it's a nice surprise. I like those kinds of contradictions.
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I think we live in a time where we can all distract ourselves from facing the pain or the reality of all of our lives - tons of ways to hide, to kill pain, to deal with pain.
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Good Charlotte, for us, comes from a place of youth for us, back when we were struggling and fighting for every inch, just trying to get by.
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One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.
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The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'
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In music industry they always want you to write something like the one that was popular. And that's something you kind of have to just - sometimes you just say yes to people, like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure," and then you just write the one you want to write.
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Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.