Joel Madden Quotes

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

It's tougher to work with Amaal, as the brother equation comes in between. We fight like any other siblings and have creative differences. I work harder when I am singing for him, as he is a taskmaster.

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

I ain't tripping about not playing with my brother.

Naturally, in a band or duo, it's really about compromise which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Co-directing is not possible with my brother. We have very different opinions.

There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.

We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.

When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.

I grew up with brothers, and we would play-fight a lot.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

'The Black Prism' is a story about two brothers who respect and fear and admire and contend with and shape each other. In other words, it's a story of normal brothers - who happen to be in extraordinary circumstances.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

Everybody has fights with their sister.

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

People are always curious about brothers working together.