Benji Madden Quotes
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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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Good Charlotte became more than a band and more than the songs: it became something that the fans owned.
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Every time we go to New Zealand, it gets harder to leave. Everyone's always treated us like we're at home.
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As hopeful as I am, there are some times in my life when I get to low points. Luckily, I still have music to get me through things.
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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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Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.
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Good Charlotte is very special to us. It's something we really cherish.
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We were all 16 and 17. When you're that age, you're just daydreaming all day. We had bands we loved - Green Day, Weezer, a lot of bands in the '90s - and we just wanted to have fun. We didn't overthink it too much.
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Our fans are very much like us; they like the same things we do.
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3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour.
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Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.
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It really is draining: when you sing a song, it means so much to you, and every time you sing it, you feel it ,and these emotions come back.
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I hope my allergies don't act up.
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I prefer a good review. A bad review that dismisses us... I take it with a grain of salt. I go, 'Okay, they didn't even try.'
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'Nevermind' by Nirvana. That was a big one for me.
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We didn't leave home until we graduated high school, but when we did, we genuinely left. We went out into the world with 50 bucks, backpacks, and acoustic guitars.
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I think Good Charlotte has definitely always been for the underdogs and the misfits. We haven't ever really been the critics' darlings.
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I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.
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One thing I never worry about is money, because I have my health and my family, and I can always go back to work.
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When we were babies, mum had to dress one of us in one colour, like blue and green, and she'd put a little mark on our hand or toe... she definitely had to sort us out.
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I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had was it was going to be really simple, I just want it to be all about the lyrics and I just literally sang the lyrics.
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When we were younger, we fought, but that's what kids do, right?
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Our music contradicts our look.
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As young kids, we had a lot of tenacity. Life was tough at home, so it was easy to go out in the world and try.