Benji Madden Quotes
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I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.
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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 feel like, if you're writing the same songs you were writing when you were 17 in your 30s, something's wrong. As a grown man, you're more confident, and you have less to prove.
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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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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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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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The Madden Brothers is definitely not a side project.
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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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Novelty always sparks ideas.
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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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That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.
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Don't worry mom . I am still a virgin.
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All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.
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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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I really love 'Cold Song.' If anyone really listens to that song and thinks about their life, there's a lot of good material deep down in there. I think if you listen to the lyrics, it may take you on some sort of a journey.
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What we're most known for is the catchy choruses and the big hooks.
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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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I'm always happy to work with my brother and especially to be a part of 'The Voice Kids.'
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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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There are some people i'd take a bullet for, and some people i'd like to put a bullet in.
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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.