Joel Madden

Musician

42 Quotes

I've grown a lot as a singer and a songwriter, but also as a person. I communicate better with my band, and our relationships are stronger and closer.

Just stay true to yourself and true to wut you believe.

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?

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

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

The way that you parent, you ease into every stage.

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

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.

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!

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.

Every girl I've ever dated I have respect for, and I always try to leave them in good terms.

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

I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day.

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.

I have a zombie apocalypse kit at my house. I've got freeze dried food, I've got a real deal medical kit, like, a doctor could perform a surgery with this medical kit. I got all kinds of everything.

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

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