Benji Madden Quotes

At fourteen or fifteen, I decided to earn my living when I grew up playing drums made from wooden beer kegs and leading a group called Keg Brando and His Kegliners. We organized a little band, but it didn't last long and didn't make any money.

I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs - Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band - we'd compete in festivals.

I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

I was in an a cappella group in high school.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.

I'm very proud of my band and my musicians.

Capital Cities - the rock group - I'm a huge fan of theirs.

I got my group together when I was about thirteen. We had a local radio show, and then we started touring for the principal of the high school - he was in the Lions Club, and so we were the entertainment.

My favorite band - and Bobby Cannavale and Terry Winter have already made fun of me for this - is Chicago.

When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.

I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.

I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.

I love getting to be onstage with so many great musicians.

Audioslave was something that I felt had become a career decision. It became three albums over a period of years touring with a specific group of people.

Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.

I've been rapping since I was 13.