"Music is supposed to be an escape, It's supposed to be somewhere you can go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you wanna be." - Joel from Good Charlotte

"Good Charlotte is anger management teen angst."- Joel Madden [GC]

"Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind. Besides, no band has ever given us shit for our career path. It's mostly just jaded punkers. And if that's the way they're gonna be, I'd rather have someone who doesn't know a thing about punk coming to our shows, 'cause they're the ones who like it for what it is, not for what it isn't." -joel

"I'm just in the band."- Joel, GC on his talents

"[During] the first song we looked at each other and we were like, 'this is what we're doing,'" remembers Joel. "From then on we just wanted to rock."- Joel

"When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life."- Joel on the album that had the biggest affect on him

"I'm kinda disappointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was."- JoelJoel: We're in a band called Good Charlotte
Benji: Yes. Joel likes to mention this every time.

"You guys have been in the studio too long.I remember when we were making our first record I'd be like "If you do that one more time. I'll. uh. lick your balls!" yea. It's only gay if you swallow!"- Joel from GC to Pierre of Simple Plan

"This band is kinda like a marriage. Me and Benj especially."- Joel on the band.

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

"You can only start a boyband if you kill one of the ones already out there."- Joel

"I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, we just push on and tour and make music and do whatever."-Joel

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

Joel: Every band dreams of that.I know our band does; we don't have a platinum record!

Joel: I really love Dashboard, if you don't have the cd you should really check it out.

"I think we're a hair band now.- Joel

"Good Charlotte is anger management teen angst."- Joel

"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."- Joel

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."

(Singing Seasons) "Walking all along the grass, you told meah y'all I forgot the words!" Joel

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

"We're definitely not jaded. We never really considered ourselves serious musicians who are changing music. We're just kids who wanted to be in a band." - Joel

"This one's for all you emo and skater kids, we know your sensitive" ( about Motivation Proclamation)- Joel

"We can't be responsible for our good fortune though. Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind."- Joel

"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,"- Joel

"We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything"- Joel

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