70 Quotes by Joel Madden

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...

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

I have a zombie apocalypse kit at my house. I've got freeze dried food, I've got a real deal medical kit, like, a doctor could perform a surgery with this medical kit. I got all kinds of everything.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.

I'm not for every woman, you know. Because a lot of women - I mean, obviously, your first thing is, 'What do you want your guy to look like?' And I'm not the tall, dark, handsome guy.