Benji Madden Quotes

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

Albums take a lot out of you.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

Jeff always had a huge part in making a song a record. You felt like you were capturing lightning in the studio. It was never boring. He always was there to serve the song.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.