Benji Madden Quotes

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.

With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience.

I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.

It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

One day I got a phone call, and Johnny and Dee Dee asked me if I wanted to join their band. I said, 'Yeah.'

I think, a lot of times, bands will break up because their goal is commercial success, and most bands aren't going to get that: it's out of their control. If you do, you're one of the lucky ones, but that commercial success will likely fade, and you'll end up breaking up anyway.

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

I'd had it as a member of a group. I sang with the Moonglows for two years, and that was enough.

Certainly for some time, people used to think of my solo career as somehow a side project to Porcupine Tree. No. If anything, the opposite would now have to be the case.

Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.