Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Benji Madden
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Benji Madden.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.
Nothing worries me in life anymore. When you find that best friend, that love, all your worries kind of go away.
I think that 'Prayers' is a really interesting one because we wrote it well before the border crisis was happening, and in that first verse, I was actually writing about the experience of me and my wife's relationship and finding someone who you feel safe with and you relate to and can ponder existence with.
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.
I think the soul of Good Charlotte is just feeling good.
We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.
I really love 'Cold Song.' If anyone really listens to that song and thinks about their life, there's a lot of good material deep down in there. I think if you listen to the lyrics, it may take you on some sort of a journey.
It's really hard to do this life - to be a human being alone.
Joel? He's the rock star! When you see Joel step on stage... he's born to be a rock star.
Good Charlotte fit in a lot of different genres - it's one of the coolest things our band has been able to do.
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.
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.
We've all had a million day jobs. We got by fine then.
You've got to think, when we started our band, none of us had a computer until we were 21.
Our music contradicts our look.
Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.
The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.
A lot of our fans have grown up, but they've stuck by us for the songs that dig a little deeper.
The youth is always going to decide the future.
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.'
I think we live in a time where we can all distract ourselves from facing the pain or the reality of all of our lives - tons of ways to hide, to kill pain, to deal with pain.
The one thing that nobody else in the world can touch is the coffee in Australia.
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.
All we can do is just think about what we can put into the world - not really kind of what we can get out of it.
Jessie J's a funny, funny woman. What she does is she reels you in.
The least punk thing I ever did was open a money market account. Blue chip stocks. Mutual funds. They're a very safe and dependable way to grow your money long-term.
Hopefully, the people that would look at a Good Charlotte record and dismiss it for maybe what they think is a certain kind of content, if they do discover something meaningful, then it's a nice surprise. I like those kinds of contradictions.
I feel like, if you're writing the same songs you were writing when you were 17 in your 30s, something's wrong. As a grown man, you're more confident, and you have less to prove.
I didn't fly on a plane until I was 19.
Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.
I got a little tattoo on my face. I'll never be able to work another real job, so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.
That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.
When I have kids, they're definitely gonna work.
Novelty always sparks ideas.
I think, a lot of times, people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine.
One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.
Our fans are very much like us; they like the same things we do.
To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.
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.
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.
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.
It's important for artists to value themselves - whatever that means. Everyone's going to take that in a different way. If you don't value yourself, you will be bought and sold.
'Life Changes' is a song that we feel really connects to the spirit of our band and our fans. It's got that positive vibe we always want to put out there, and the message - no matter how many times you get knocked down, always get back up - will forever be part of the GC story.
It does feel really good when you play a new song, and it's the loudest singalong of the night. It means just as much when we're playing the old songs, and people are singing along to those, too.
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.
'Nevermind' by Nirvana. That was a big one for me.
We grew up in the middle of nowhere. We didn't have a rich uncle in the music industry or some contact through someone that our dad worked with. And we went into the world blindly, and just through believing, dreaming, and working hard, Good Charlotte came to fruition.
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.
Maryland is such a special place, man... You miss that warm, friendly love. It ain't like that everywhere else in the world.
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.
I really was thinking a lot about the energy on the first couple records that we ever put out and how young and excited we were. I just really wanted to make it more fun than anything.
One thing I never worry about is money, because I have my health and my family, and I can always go back to work.
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.
I think Good Charlotte has definitely always been for the underdogs and the misfits. We haven't ever really been the critics' darlings.
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.
Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.
I've started to see records as just a snapshot, a portrait of where you were at at that time. And if you're comfortable with that, sometimes it's like an old high school year book picture - it makes you blush a little bit, but you gotta learn to really appreciate each stage of your life and where you're at.
What we're most known for is the catchy choruses and the big hooks.
I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love and having a good time.
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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