~*Benji Quotes*~
"I'm the self-proclaimed leader of the band."
"Nickelback, Default, Adema, etc., etc., make me want to stick a fork in my eye."
"I can disappear watch" *get up out of his seat and leaves*
"Hi, we're Crazytown and we suck!"
"When we fight, it's not about things you think we'd fight about, like music. It's about like, I'll wear Joel's socks and he'll be like, 'Dude... dude... I told you not to wear my socks, dude... You know I like my socks... Benji... Dude, oh are those my boxers, too? Dude ooh.. Ohh do you have to go there? Dude... dude!' And then we're, like, in the studio in this really important part of the song and I'll be like 'What do you think we should do?''I don't care.. are those my boxers? DUDE!" - Benji (on fighting with Joel)
"I sell out every day, I say give me 5 bucks and I'll give you a kiss."
"That's surprising [that I smell good] seeing I haven't showered in... three weeks."
"Yea on our day off we went to Disney for our first time and Joel was like a little kid. he was like come on guys we have to hurry to space mountain. And this morning when I walked in the bathroom I swear I heard him singing When you wish upon a star."
"I hope my allergies don't act up..." (In a nasaly voice...)
"I'm gonna go... walk... into traffic."
"Eyeliner! Always comes in handy"
"I am thinking about getting a job here." - Benji (about Wet Seal)
"I don't know how your gonna take this, but Santa Claus isn't real, Bro..."
"In the 5th grade I made a mosaic out of noodles!"
Interviewer: "Can you dance?"
Benji: "I can freak"
"Hey, guys. I have some bad news for you... we were backing out of the parking lot and I think we ran over Lil Bow Wow."
"We feel really lucky right now, especially because we're so young. We feel like we can do anything, nothing can hold us back, and we've got a lot of energy."
"I'm agoraphobic... I just want someone to love me."
(During "Seasons") "I'm really feelin' those lighters..." (like Fred Durst in the song "Outside") *Silence* "Oh, come on! That was supposed to be funny!"
Person: "Alotta people have that tattoo *points to spiderweb looking tattoo on his elbow* What does it mean?"
Benji: "You usually get it when you murder someone."
Person: "Benji! You murdered someone?!"
Benji: (laughing and whispering) "Well, I can't tell you that. No, I'm just kidding, I didn't murder anyone. It's tradition to get the tattoo."
Little Kid: "Hey Benji, will you sign my report card?"
Benji: (Looks around and trys not to laugh.) "Wow, that's really good!"
"This is a sweet song, it's for the guys of MXPX. 'Cause one night, I was having a real tough night, one of the guys from MXPX invited me on his bus. He helped me out a lot, yeah, he held me all night long."
"It must be real tough to be a punk rocker in Wisconsin, you get chased by rednecks and stuff."
"This one time, Joel was too scared to ask a girl to a dance so he had me call her up and pretend I was him, and she said no and then she said 'This isn't Joel is it?' and I said, 'No it's Benj!'"
A person told him that he backed into a parked car on the way to a show and he said...
Benji: "Are you okay?"
Person: "Yeah, I'm fine! "
Benji: "Are you SURE you're okay?!"
Benji: "For me?"
Person: "If you squeeze it, it sings the twilight zone song."
Benji: "Come here you get a hug!"
"Tonight I'm spooning with Tom on my couch!" (Referring to MxPx.)
Interviewer: "Benji, with all your piercings have you got your 'Prince Albert' done?"
Benji: "Ahahahahahaha...(innocently) Who's Prince Albert?..."
"Someone call the fire department this one's out of control!" (said while shaking his hips back and forth) (He said this outside the club they played that turned into a dance club after and u could hear techno in the back HE WAS DANCING!)
"Joel your gloves suck!"
"That's funny, we were just talking about sex!"
"That performance really moved me...I gotta go now."
Person: "Hey Benji, were you doing drugs before the show?"
Benji: (Laughter) "Nah, I don't do drugs."
"Yeah of course, the boxers are yummy and its the bacon that gets the gals! No wait...its the other way around..."
"Stop watching them making out!"
"Uh...I like dogs...I have a dog...his name is Cash."
"They call me Benji, they call him Joel."
"Thanks to Burt Backarach, red wine and candlelight and most of all thanks to my parents for doing it."
*Hands me the pen* "Can I please have It?" *puppy dog face*
"Awww. Thanks, you get a hug for that!"
"Corruption? What's that? No, we probably corrupted each other."
"My ass smells like Joel."
"Keep representin' GC, 'cause you know we're representin' you!"
"I bet they did the dirty-dirty! Go Justin, go Justin!" (Talking about Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake's break-up)
"Call me a mama's boy, I don't care."
"One egg, one sperm, two babies!."
"Black nailpolish didn't come with testosterone."
Interviewer: Would you ever consider turning in your instruments to learn choreography and become a boy band?
Benji: Umm... after you shot me in the head.
"I was in a boy band once myself, and let me tell you, the Backstreet Boys don't have anything on you."
"I have a confession to make: I love making out. It's fun and innocent. And besides, you can't get pregnant from making out."
"You know who else likes making out? Sum 41... I know from experience...or at least my friend does."
"My last name is rock n' roll, actually my last name is scum." (Say it really slow)
(After this girl handed him ring that lights up when you push it...) "Joel! Lookie!" *Pushes ring into Joel's cheek and watches it light up* "It's so purty!"
"Were not very good at the whole rock star thing."
"Were just kinda the awkward guys who play music."
"You just cursed on the radio!" (Said to Joel.)
"Joel is a strange kid, he grew up in a weird place."
"If you're not pregnant, I want you going home pregnant."
"I got all the hoes."
"I like to rip tags off mattresses"
"Does that sound like it's in tune? Alright? Good enough? Its just tv"
"UK kids are a little paler too. You ain't got no sun over there"
~*Joel Quotes*~
"You were the one who gave me those boxers? I wondered where they came from, I wear those! Although I'm not a big fan of flannel, it gets a little hot down there, if you know what I mean..."
"Okay, now who stole my wallet?"
"Damn girl, you don't have to pinch so hard, turn around, now it's your turn!"
"I don't want to see anyone leaving single tonight. I want everyone to leave impregnated."
"It's got to be hard to be a punk in colorado. There's no air."
"Biotch... It's G to tha mutha fuckin C!"
"He's like a little brother to us all.We like to pick on him,all of us you know." (Joel talking about Billy)
"Anywhere on your leg is near the bone and that shit hurts."
"Yeah, I hurt my finger, does anyone have a Band-Aid?"
"Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band."
Canadian Radio DJ: "Do you know who the prime minister of Canada is?"
Joel: "Boris Yeltsin!"
"I'm kinda disappointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was."
Some girl asks Joel: "Where are you playing tomorrow?"
Another girl: "Birch Hill" (She yells it really loud and fast.)
Joel: "Damn Girl."
"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."
"People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy."
"We love you all..."
"Yes, I am pimpin' this coat, thank you very much..."
"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."
"Look what you did, you just made me say badass Buffalo five times."
"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..."
"You can only start a boy band if you kill one of the other ones already out there."
"This song is for the girls in [insert town here], because they mess with your head."
"Good Charlotte is anger management teen angst."
"This one's for all you emo and skater kids, we know your sensitive" ( Describing Motivation Procolomation.)
"My last name is sex. S-E-X."
"It's ourself and it's titled by us."
"Weve been together since the womb. We met in the womb." (Joel to Benji.)
"Let me put on my leather pants and open my shirt."
"Hold your head up, it'll get better."
"He put Bengay on my nuts!"
"I got all the heys."
"I'd have sex with Britney and just makeout with Christina cause she'd have drama the next day."
"I played baseball, I was actually pretty good, the coach didn't think so, but I was."
"If I were in that pit, I'd be making out with everyone one of you!"
"For all those people who thought they were having cybersex with Benji online they were wrong, it's not Benji you're having cyber sex with"
(Benji has a huge grin on his face to say that he actually was having cyber with people online.)
"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."
"Im feelin this crowd so much, I think Im goin to stand in it."
"I always envy Paul cause he's got a real laid-back attitude and I'm pretty much a worry-worry kind of person. I worry a lot. Paul's just real chill. And I really love Paul."
"My writing has gotten a little better where I can say what I’m feeling better so the songs are articulated a little more."
"Sometimes you'll spit and it'll fly and hit someone because you're moving all over the stage. Benj gets annoyed sometimes. One time I caught him right in the face. He spit on me all night after that."
~*Billy Quotes*~
"I don't really think there is such a thing as a band selling out."
"As far as favorite foods go, I'm a vegetarian. If I had to choose a favorite food, it would be peanut butter."
"I'm really into girls that try to be a little different from everybody else but are very classy at the same time."
"Picture? SURE! You want a picture? Let's take a picture!"
"Before I started playing music I was really into art. I've been drawing since I was very young and if I weren't in a band I'd probably be an animator or a comic book artist."
Billy: You ever think about saucepans?
Joel: Saucepans? Um... no.
Billy: Me neither.
"I don't know what I had for breakfast today. It was like... something with wood. I don't know."
"I like to hang outside and meet new friends, otherwise I'd be in the dressing room right now all bored and stuff."
"You don't want to go near the inside of that, our van stinks!"
"Oh, I thought you wanted a hug!"
A Girl: "Sign my jacket."
Billy: "Are you sure? This is a nice jacket."
Other Girl: "Christa, your mom will KILL you."
The Girl: "It's my jacket, just sign it Billy."
The Other Girl: "It was 50 dollars!"
Billy: "Oh my God! This was 50 dollars? Are you sure? I don't want to get in trouble!"
"If you want me to wait, I will wait for you" You figure its a nice love song but Benji swears its about his dog!"
"I'm not famous, you all are just crazy."
"We spend a majority of the show after the playing just walking around the crowd and meeting kids. Kids are like 'Why do you do this?' And we all say, 'Well, if it wasn't for you guys, we'd be nothing.' It's like it makes sense to us just to hang out cuz we like to."
Person: "Hey Billy can ya sign my arm?"
Billy: "Sure thing sweetie!"
Some Other Person: "Hey Billy! Can ya sign my ass?"
Billy: "There will be no ass signing tonight. I'm sorry for the inconvenience..."
(When asked who spends the most time on his hair) "Joel...well, no Joel cares the most about his hair but it takes Benji the longest when he does it."
"Hey, guys. You ready for some rock and roll?"
(When asked who sleeps the most...) "Benji always claims of being an insomniac, but i swear as soon as we go on the van, he's like dead asleep."
"What! There goes my heart walking down the street."
"Why dont you come in the picture with me... it'll be more special that way."
"Princess!"
"I was running across the stage, and I tripped over our bass player Paul's cord and did a Superman across the stage. I felt so stupid, but then I got back up and did it going the other way!"
These quotes are from a Billy Martin Fansite- So Surreal
"I say we were all probably the non-football player, super academic type of people." (On what kind of people they were in highschool)
"My biggest one [influence] would be Silverchair, is probably the reason why I play music, because when they were like 15 and did their first record I was like 14 and I was like "oh man, if they can do it, I can do it" and I've been following that band like obsessively since that day."
"I used to just watch cartoons. Sit in front of the tv and watch cartoons with a piece of paper and a pencil. I would draw every cartoon character. I wanted to work for Disney really bad and be an animator. I'd sit around and draw all day long. I never really went out and played in the woods with a bunch of snakes under rocks. I was scared of snakes. I was pretty little so I would just sit around and draw. That's all I really did. I listened to "It's not easy being green" by Kermit on a record player in my headphones every single day. That was big on my list." (Talking about what he was like as a kid)
"Paul's really good at bass. I think the problem is that we're not really good at playing guitar so we need other things to occupy us." (talking about why he started Level27...haha)
"I'm a goody goody. I never do bad things."
"I don't dislike too many things except for snakes! I don't have much of a tolerance for really fake people either. Another thing I hate is when St. Paul touches my... Never mind, I'm actually pretty content with everything."
"..for the most part I'm like a metalhead. I like heavy stuff, or I like fuckin Nirvana or a lot of the grunge stuff is what I like."
"I'm scared of cops."
"Benji likes to match his hair with his underwear and we caught him in a pink thong once. We videotaped it."
"Uhhh, I'm not into mohawks, but I definitely wouldn't go with a mullet, so I guess I'd have to go with a mohawk I guess." (when asked whether he would prefer a chick with a mullet or mohawk)
~*Paul Quotes*~
"I'm the bass player. No one has a crush on the BASS player!"
"People always ask me for a 'Paul Hug'....what the heck is a 'Paul Hug'?"
"I dropped an anvil on Benji."
Interviewer: If you couldn't be in a band, what would you do?
Paul: I'd be a farmer.
"Don't get it wrong, we all hate their dad."
"St. Paul is not gay! He's very, very straight."
Person: "Do you know that you're in the best band in the world?"
PAUL: *Nods* "I know."
"You look familiar."
Paul: "St. Paul is not gay!! He's very, very straight."
Aaron: "Ok, buddy, whatever you want to believe."
Paul: "You're really starting to hurt my feelings."
Paul: "Do you know whos dog this is?"
Person: "Um... no?"
Paul: "Its Madonna's hairdresser's dog!"
"Are you sure you're not from Waldorf? I swear I've seen you so much before."
"Are you sure you don't want Joel's autograph instead?"
"Billy drives like an old grandma."
"Cash? He's a...um a pit bull?"
"Watch out I might have rabies!"
"You have beautiful handwriting..."
"How you doin' babygurl?"
Person: "Can I have a hug?"
Paul: "Only If I can hug you."
Paul: "Here ya go." *Hands a signed picture*
Person: "Spank you."
Paul: "SPANK WHAT?"
THE QUOTES BELOW ARE FROM THE YOUNG AND THE HOPELESS
"This cute girl tripped me in the hall back in high school, and everyone thought it was funny. So, the next day, I tripped her on her heels and I don't know what happened to her. I think she died... I don't know."
Paul: Dude, I never drink beer. Never.
Joel: You just did.
Paul: Oh.
"Barbies? No... I never played with Barbie dolls..."
"Look, I know a crossdresser when I see one." (on Justin Timberlake)
"I used to take piano lessons when I was a kid. One time, I farted during a lesson, and my teacher never came back to my house."
"I met this girl once, she was an awesome boxer. She always came out of fights clean. Then I found out that she wasn't exactly a girl..."
"I wasn't popular in school. I liked to pretend I was, and I would go sit with the cool kids. Then they'd tell me to go fuck myself, and I would realize what a loser I was."
"You know what toy I wish I still had? Nintendo Techmo Super Bowl. I was the fat kid growing up, and when you're the fat kid, you love video games. And Twinkies."
