Benji Madden Quotes
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When we were younger, we fought, but that's what kids do, right?
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There's this wave of new pop-punk bands that has come out that's bigger than ever. I'm really glad that we got to be a part of helping push that forward, if we did at all. I wouldn't have had it any other way.
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Today, somewhere in America, there's a kid who's got a laptop and a guitar and a couple of his friends he's putting together to play drums and bass, who's gonna change the way we say things, the way that we dress, the way we view things, the music we hear, everything.
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When you have a relationship with a label, it can really affect the work you're doing and if you feel like they don't believe in you sometimes you go: "maybe I'm not any good at this". Then you get on a label that is excited to have you and you go: "oh, maybe we are ok at this". It gives you a little more confidence and you work a little better.
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We don't take ourselves seriously; we make the records for fun.
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Things have changed. I almost feel like it's more adaptable, and you can decide your own career now. I feel artists have so much more of a voice and so much more power now. It's really inspiring to see how a lot of the young artists use their platforms.
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As a kid, you're like, 'Do they have Preakness everywhere or just in Maryland?' You hear people talking about it, and it was like, 'Oh, everyone goes there to hang out and party.' I didn't even know it was a race until I got older.
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Maryland is such a special place, man... You miss that warm, friendly love. It ain't like that everywhere else in the world.
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Nothing worries me in life anymore. When you find that best friend, that love, all your worries kind of go away.
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Our music contradicts our look.
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The youth is always going to decide the future.
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There are so many bands I am starting to see: Waterparks, Potty Mouth - they're all garage bands that started in the garage. Kids are loving them.
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I kind of live by this old thing that time will tell whether people are going to write about this or that; all we can do is be who we are and make records we love, and everything else will sort itself out.
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You're just these kids from a small town. You get a record deal, and everything just goes so fast. In the span of five albums... in a way, the band that you started in your bedroom, or your basement or your garage, kind of becomes not your band anymore. It becomes something bigger than you could have known. No one really prepares you.
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It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought - I wonder if we just open up our subconscious and the things that we think about and hide from people every day and just let them come out in some of these lyrics.
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We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.
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I didn't fly on a plane until I was 19.
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I think about people whose lives maybe hadn't turned out as well as me and Joel's lives, and I just think it's just pure luck and the grace of God. I also think we were lucky to have each other as brothers.
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There's definitely a lot of moments in my life now where I go, 'Wow, I get paid for this.' I've had worse jobs.
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Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.
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Coffee in Italy and some places in Europe is great, but there's just something about Australian coffee.
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I think, a lot of times, people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine.
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Jessie J's a funny, funny woman. What she does is she reels you in.
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You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real, if it feels authentic.