Benji Madden

I hope my allergies don't act up

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

I'm a really easy guy to read.

— Benji Madden

I love the gym; I do a lot of curls.

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

— Benji Madden

The youth is always going to decide the future.

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

Don't let anyone make you feel like you're not good enough, smart enough or cool enough. Do your own thing.

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.

— Benji Madden

When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it.

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

It's important for artists to value themselves - whatever that means. Everyone's going to take that in a different way. If you…

— Benji Madden

The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.

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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…

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour

— Benji Madden

I really was thinking a lot about the energy on the first couple records that we ever put out and how young…

— Benji Madden

I think, a lot of times, people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine.

— Benji Madden

One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they…

— Benji Madden

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…

— Benji Madden

Often people think they know what they want, but what they really want is something that's genuine. So they'll be saying, "Do…

— Benji Madden

A lot of bands don't really like each other. I read an Interpol interview the other day, it was a really good…

— Benji Madden

I think that 'Prayers' is a really interesting one because we wrote it well before the border crisis was happening, and in…

— Benji Madden

I wouldn't be surprised if this album cycle for 'Cardiology' is the funnest couple years we ever see. We've made all of…

— Benji Madden

We grew up in the middle of nowhere. We didn't have a rich uncle in the music industry or some contact through…

— Benji Madden

The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the…

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

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

— Benji Madden

Our music contradicts our look.

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The Madden Brothers is definitely not a side project.

— Benji Madden

Don't worry mom . I am still a virgin.

— Benji Madden

Novelty always sparks ideas.

— Benji Madden