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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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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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I hope my allergies don't act up.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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I didn't fly on a plane until I was 19.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.
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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The youth is always going to decide the future.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.
Benji 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
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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We don't take ourselves seriously; we make the records for fun.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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Our music contradicts our look.
Benji 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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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.
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
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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.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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I always jump at the chance to mentor kids when it comes to music.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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There's an interesting thing I've seen with Australian bands: when you put them side-by-side with bands from other parts of the world, they're just more musical. They're just better.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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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."
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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My muse appears to me in a different form every time a new idea for a song is created. Sometimes I'm inspired by music or film, but more typically it's my surroundings that truly inspire me. Family, work, school, the city I live in, the books I read... All of these things inspire the creation of a song.
Paul Thomas Good Charlotte
