Benji Madden Quotes
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I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it.
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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.
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A lot of bands don't really like each other. I read an Interpol interview the other day, it was a really good interview because it was showing a different aspect of a band. They don't really like each other - they work together and they kinda exist together and that's how they like it. They're like, "we didn't get into this band looking for friends."
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We can guarantee you that 15 to 30 seconds of any of our songs are going to be good. The rest, we can't guarantee.
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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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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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The only time I only really made out with a girl in high school, my mom caught me.
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I'm a really easy guy to read.
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I always jump at the chance to mentor kids when it comes to music.
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The one thing that nobody else in the world can touch is the coffee in Australia.
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Often people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine. So they'll be saying, "Do another one like that," but you liked that one because it's real. So as long as I keep it real and I do something that's real to me, you're going to feel it in the same way.
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You find, as the years go on and you have some success, people kind of start to say yes when they should say no.
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All of our lyrics are really personal, and we get a lot of personal letters.
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We have known each other for a long time, and I've always known the real Paris. I always knew she was like wife material or serious girlfriend material.
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We've all had a million day jobs. We got by fine then.
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The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.
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We've made a lot of party music; we're definitely not Thom Yorke. But there's also depth to our records; we get emotional.
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We started our band in a garage when we were 15.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this album cycle for 'Cardiology' is the funnest couple years we ever see. We've made all of our mistakes; we've kind of learned. Now we know what to avoid, we know what to embrace, we know how to take a deep breath and enjoy the moment.
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Both of us are lucky because we married women who are amazing cooks.