Joel Madden

“When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.”

“It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.”

“I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was.”

“Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.”

“Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.”

“Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.”

“I just live my own life, and I don't read any of the magazines.”

“I think the terrorists are just idiots.”

“People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.”

“We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.”

“I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.”

“I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.”

“You can only start a boyband if you kill one of the ones already out there.”

“I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.”

“I like getting toilet paper thrown at me.”

“We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything.”

“I'm not for every woman, you know. Because a lot of women - I mean, obviously, your first thing is, 'What do you want your guy to look like?' And I'm not the tall, dark, handsome guy.”

“Benji usually tries to match his hair with his underwear, and you know how he had the pink hair for a while well we caught him in a pink thong one day!”

“So I wanna see all of you making out during this song.”

“I'm kind of crazy with karma. I really believe that everything you do revisits you, so, I'm really adamant about the kids seeing the grandparents, so like, I can see my grandkids, you know what I mean?”