JOEL MADDEN QUOTES

"I put on pretty good sock puppet shows and I can mime"

"I don't smile."

"You can call him Benjamin, that's what Momma calls him."

"We were put together by the label, we had to try out in a gymnasium... no, just kidding "

"Whether they play us on the radio or not, if they put us on MTV or not, it doesn't matter 'cause all of you guys are standing here and we're a family. Punk rock is a family."

"...music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be..."

"We love you all..."

"Look what you did, you just made me say badass Buffalo five times."

"Yes, I am pimpin' this coat, thank you very much..."

"You can only start a boy band if you kill one of the other ones already out there."

"So I wanna see all of you making out during this song."

JOEL: "This song is about quitting school, quitting work, quitting everything and starting a band. A punk rock band, a ska band, any kind of band. But what do you gotta do if you wanna start a boyband?"
CROWD: "You gotta kill one of the ones already out there!"
JOEL: "That's right, because you gotta get in the rotation."

"I was in Menudo."

(when asked how touring has changed their lives) "I think you could say that we know more about the world, and we are now experts on the care and feeding of stinky, smelly socks." from soundbreak.com interview,

"It was the same thing, we stood in a room and picked! 'We want that guy!'"

(Singing Seasons) "Walking all along the...grass, ya told me...ah y'all I forgot the words..."

"Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band."

"I'm kinda disappointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was."

"People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy."

"Okay, now who stole my wallet?"

"Damn girl, you don't have to pinch so hard, turn around, now it's your turn!"

"Good Charlotte is anger management teen angst."

"I don't want to see anyone leaving single tonight. I want everyone to leave impregnated."

"This one's for all you emo and skater kids, we know your sensitive" ( about motivation Procolomation )

girl: whoa! your standing right there!
Joel: yeah! im a real person too i have skin and i shit too but shhh dont tell anyone.

"Yeah and your teeth are clenched together and you're like, 'It's cool, man. I'm fine.'"  (on getting painful tatoos) 

"I got kicked out of class so much and it wasn't fair because I was just talking. In class, if there was a pretty girl, I would just try to talk [to her] all the time. I like to talk, especially to girls. And I got kicked out of class all the time. The teacher would be like 'All right, stop,' and I'd be like 'Okay,' and keep talking. Then I'd try to impress her and it wouldn't really work. I'd get kicked out for trying to be funny, like they'd call me up to read and I'd read the wrong thing. I didn't take high school very seriously." 

"This is a really intimate gathering... (pause, something flys up on stage) ...So intimate in fact, that someone just threw their bra up on stage!" 

"We got Paul over here sportin' the Ravens. And we got Billy over here rockin' 'Nightmare Before Christmas.'" 

"Mm Tiky Tiky, Kickass!"

"A guy strip club, where the guys get naked, like cocle doodle dudes."

"It's only gay if you swallow."

"I was really disappointed that Canada wasn't like the South Park movie said it was."

"(on stage after Benji's punk rock girl speech thing) everyone say BENJI SHUT UP!"