Benji Madden Quotes

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

It feels so satisfying to hear a song I wrote come out of the radio.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

We got instant gratification when we would slip in one of our own songs and people would cheer. We started getting a lot of gratification from writing.

I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing what art is supposed to do, mixing it up with people.

When it's your words, and then you watch it connect with an audience as the artist, I kinda reflect back on the writing process and why those words were important to me. And to watch people sing it back, I mean, that kinda means everything because that's the whole point for me - performance and songwriting - is to connect with people.

If you can write a catchy melody and a song that captures people around the world, what better thing to do? Other than 'Let Her Go,' I haven't managed to do that. And that's fine by me.

I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

I love doing movies that touch people's lives.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.