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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 -
3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour.
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.
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
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 -
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 -
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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
I think Good Charlotte has definitely always been for the underdogs and the misfits. We haven't ever really been the critics' darlings.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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'Nevermind' by Nirvana. That was a big one for me.
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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.
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Good Charlotte is very special to us. It's something we really cherish.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
I hope my allergies don't act up.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
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 -
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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Good Charlotte became more than a band and more than the songs: it became something that the fans owned.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
I'm always happy to work with my brother and especially to be a part of 'The Voice Kids.'
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
When we were younger, we fought, but that's what kids do, right?
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
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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Our fans are very much like us; they like the same things we do.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
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 -
I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte