Benji Madden Quotes

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Benji Madden

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 11, 1979

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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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.

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Maryland is such a special place, man... You miss that warm, friendly love. It ain't like that everywhere else in the world.

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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.

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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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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.

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It's really hard to do this life - to be a human being alone.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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I didn't fly on a plane until I was 19.

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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.

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Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.

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Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

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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.

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I think the soul of Good Charlotte is just feeling good.

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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.

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'Nevermind' by Nirvana. That was a big one for me.

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Nothing worries me in life anymore. When you find that best friend, that love, all your worries kind of go away.

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