Benji Madden Quotes

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

Not everyone who writes about you is going to be a fan of your music.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

I always go for 'SPIN' magazine because I'm such a music buff.

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway.

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!

My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.

But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.

With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.

My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.

The XCX really stands for 'kiss Charli kiss,' which is unbelievably crap.

Who are critics? Do they know about music? Have they proved themselves in the field? I remember, when we came up with the music of 'Dil Chahta Hai,' some of the critics said that the songs sounded like jingles.

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

I've been hearing what a lot of people been doing and what a lot of people been putting out musically, I've been listening.

I consciously did not want to put a sub-Mr. Bungle band on the map. I don't think the world needs that.

If you're 25, I could see how you could be tricked into thinking 'Benji' is my most successful record, but I've been doing this long before online magazines existed.

I see the headlines on Blabbermouth, and the fans are saying, 'Why is he always talking about Dream Theater?' I'm not talking about Dream Theater! I get asked about it.

My music has been called so many different things over the years. I figure as long as it's selling, call it what you want.

I don't like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music.

I want to reach out to everybody with my music and my album, but you're never going to please everybody. Someone's going to say something because, you know, it's an opinionated industry.