Benji Madden Quotes

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Benji Madden

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 11, 1979

When I have kids, they're definitely gonna work.

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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.

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A lot of our fans have grown up, but they've stuck by us for the songs that dig a little deeper.

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Good Charlotte fit in a lot of different genres - it's one of the coolest things our band has been able to do.

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Joel? He's the rock star! When you see Joel step on stage... he's born to be a rock star.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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What we're most known for is the catchy choruses and the big hooks.

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You've got to think, when we started our band, none of us had a computer until we were 21.

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'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.

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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.

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The youth is always going to decide the future.

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Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.

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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.

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The one thing that nobody else in the world can touch is the coffee in Australia.

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Coffee in Italy and some places in Europe is great, but there's just something about Australian coffee.

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When we were younger, we fought, but that's what kids do, right?

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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.

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