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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!'
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
Joel Madden Good Charlotte
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We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything.
Joel Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.
Joel Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.
Joel Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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You can only start a boyband if you kill one of the ones already out there.
Joel Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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'Nevermind' by Nirvana. That was a big one for me.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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Our fans are very much like us; they like the same things we do.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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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.'
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.
Joel Madden Good Charlotte
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I don't see the necessity to be friends with anyone you've dated, but definitely out of respect of the time, you have to be kind of respectful, and that's what I try to do.
Joel Madden Good Charlotte
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You were the one who gave me those boxers? I wondered where they came from, I wear those! Although I'm not a big fan of flannel, it gets a little hot down there, if you know what I mean.
Joel Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
