Benji Madden Quotes

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Benji Madden

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 11, 1979

We started our band in a garage when we were 15.

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Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no one we had to impress.

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I may have punched walls when no one else was around.

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We don't take ourselves seriously; we make the records for fun.

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There's definitely a lot of moments in my life now where I go, 'Wow, I get paid for this.' I've had worse jobs.

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Both of us are lucky because we married women who are amazing cooks.

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Jessie J's a funny, funny woman. What she does is she reels you in.

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Australian bands are so self-deprecating - then they go on stage and blow every other band off the stage.

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Good Charlotte, for us, comes from a place of youth for us, back when we were struggling and fighting for every inch, just trying to get by.

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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.

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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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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.

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We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.

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The American Dream - I believe in that cliche because I know what having nothing feels like.

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We were kids that didn't have any education. None of our parents were in the music business or even college graduates. We didn't have someone guiding us. We were just uneducated kids from the middle of nowhere that suddenly had a band going around the world.

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You're just these kids from a small town. You get a record deal, and everything just goes so fast. In the span of five albums... in a way, the band that you started in your bedroom, or your basement or your garage, kind of becomes not your band anymore. It becomes something bigger than you could have known. No one really prepares you.

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I read all the reviews. I remember the first review I ever read about our band was, 'They'll be gone tomorrow; they'll be gone quicker than they came.'

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You find, as the years go on and you have some success, people kind of start to say yes when they should say no.

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A lot of time, I have to be the person who just goes, 'Hey dude, don't even trip. Don't worry about it.'

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