Top 50 Benji Madden Quotes

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

I’ve done plenty of phoners for Joel when he’s been too busy. You’ll never know. Our voices sound so similar.

Good Charlotte is very special to us. It’s something we really cherish.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn’t like us for some reason; I don’t even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he’ll eventually crack, but maybe not. We’re just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, ‘Come on, dude!’

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.

Our fans are very much like us; they like the same things we do.

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.

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

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

I answer the questions I want, and I don’t the ones I don’t.

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.

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

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.

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 think it’s a known fact that Joel and I have always loved Australia since we started coming here 13 or 14 years ago. Everyone knows we love it here. Our only concern is will we wear our welcome out?

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.

One thing I never worry about is money, because I have my health and my family, and I can always go back to work.

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.

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.

Our music contradicts our look.

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

We’ve all had a million day jobs. We got by fine then.

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.

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

The youth is always going to decide the future.

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.

I have a great family, so I’m lucky I’ve gotten to experience all the joys of having a family.

It’s really hard to do this life – to be a human being alone.

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.

The only time I only really made out with a girl in high school, my mom caught me.

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

I couldn’t grow, like, any kind of facial hair at 17.

Good Charlotte became more than a band and more than the songs: it became something that the fans owned.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Every time we go to New Zealand, it gets harder to leave. Everyone’s always treated us like we’re at home.

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

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

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.

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

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.