Benji Madden Quotes

Modern culture is a tremendous force.

We live in an ever-changing global pop culture community.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.

I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

'Animal House' was sort of the first real, contemporary, youthful voice of the baby boom generation. It spoke to that audience, and it spoke to that part of me which was saying, 'Out with the old, in with the new.'

Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world.

I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

We think we can play a small part in the evolution of culture.

We are in love with youth culture in this country... It permeates every aspect of people's lives.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.

In the 21st century, culture is power.

Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.