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We have known each other for a long time, and I've always known the real Paris. I always knew she was like wife material or serious girlfriend material.
Benji Madden
Time
Wife
Long
Long Time
Other
Girlfriend
Paris
Knew
Like
She
Known
Always
Material
Real
Each
Serious
The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'
Benji Madden
Saying
Day
Big
Other
Late
Out
Runs
Some
About
Guy
He
Day-Out
Knocking
Come
Like
Know
Knows
Dude
His
Festivals
Crack
Going
Maybe
Just
Door
Us
Reason
Who
Even
Keep
Eventually
Why
Night
Every time we go to New Zealand, it gets harder to leave. Everyone's always treated us like we're at home.
Benji Madden
Time
Home
Every
Every Time
Everyone
New
Like
Always
Leave
Go
Gets
New Zealand
Us
Zealand
Harder
Treated
Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working.
Benmont Tench
Work
You
Sometimes
Somebody
Never
Feel
Like
Because
Heard
Just
Working
I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
Benmont Tench
Myself
Me
Experience
People
Feeling
Write
Songs
Like
Most
Particularly
Wrote
Well
Learned
Came
Were
While
Mean
Really
Nicholson
Away
Enjoyed
Gary
Need
My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.
Benmont Tench
Teacher
Music
Art
Try
Thought
Parents
Think
Something
Knew
Like
Make
Always
Just
Loved
Painter
Career
I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
Benmont Tench
Best
Way
Songs
Like
Sing
Singer
Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.
Benmont Tench
Good
Me
Song
Wind
Somebody
Secret
Way
Something
Good Song
Like
Well
Another
Calls
Because
Hired
Heard
Up
Refugee
Just
Might
Then
Really
Whoever
Play
Played
Playing
I grew up in Africa, in Nigeria. I never knew, I never had any reasonable encounter with football. I saw football on Sky News. I thought there were people dressed like extraterrestrials, you know, like they were going to Mars or something, headgears and shoulder pads. And I wondered why, as a child, why did they have to dress that way.
Bennet Omalu
News
You
People
Sky
Thought
Extraterrestrial
Saw
Way
Mars
Dress
Dressed
Something
Never
Had
Football
Knew
Like
Know
Were
Encounter
Up
Wondered
Child
Did
Any
Going
Africa
Grew
Pads
Shoulder
Reasonable
Why
Nigeria
Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.
Bennett Cerf
Crazy
Says
He
Like
Fame
Famous
Anyone
Who
You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.
Bennett Miller
You
Respected
Embraced
Like
Make
Movie
Appreciated
I like going into a scene knowing that the script isn't quite finished, that there's something that isn't really going to reveal itself until something spontaneously occurs.
Bennett Miller
Finished
Something
Scene
Like
Spontaneously
Until
Knowing
Reveal
Occurs
Itself
Going
Quite
Script
Really
I am nostalgic for those man-behind-the-curtain days when someone could get away with impersonating Kubrick because nobody had any idea what Kubrick looked like.
Bennett Miller
Those
Someone
Could
Had
Idea
Nobody
Days
Like
Looked
Because
Am
Kubrick
Get
Any
Nostalgic
Away
It's important for an actor to feel like they're really being watched and to receive feedback and encouragement about the aspects of what they're doing that feels truthful - and also to raise awareness when they might be resorting to habits and tricks, which every actor has.
Bennett Miller
Feedback
Important
Encouragement
Awareness
Every
Tricks
About
Habits
Feel
Feels
Like
Also
Doing
Truthful
Being
Which
Might
Really
Aspects
Actor
Receive
Watched
Raise
I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect.
Bennett Miller
Great
Think
Eye
Some
Feels
Like
Effect
Truthfulness
Being
Nose
Subtle
Sensitivity
Actor
Watched
I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.
Bennett Miller
Events
Settle
Waves
Everything
See
Bottom
Instead
Like
Make
Making
Want
Things
I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.
Bennett Miller
Me
Ambition
Would
Would-Be
Easy
Find
Absurd
Feel
Like
Want
After
I like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it.
Bennett Miller
Challenge
Past
See
About
Faces
Something
Like
Look
Truths
Behind
Really
Notions
Apparent
Many
Thing
Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.
Benny Blanco
Three
Minutes
Songs
Like
Crammed
Pop
Pop Songs
Set
I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, 'This is Jay-Z's attorney, we need to speak with Craig Kallman,' you know, owner of Atlantic, and they'd say, 'Right away,' and then I'd be like, 'Please just listen to my demo tape!'
Benny Blanco
You
Speak
Cold
Please
Say
Pretend
Atlantic
Like
Attorney
Attorneys
Demo
Know
Call
Tape
Labels
Owner
Artist
Listen
Craig
Just
Then
Jay-Z
Used
Away
Right
Right Away
Need
When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that never works. Every time that happens, I never write a hit song.
Benny Blanco
Time
You
Song
Every
Every Time
Write
Never
Like
Gotta
Hit
Happens
Works
Now
Right
Need
I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music isn't like a 9-to-5 job. You never know. It's just the most unpredictable thing.
Benny Blanco
Music
Me
You
Song
Job
Unpredictable
Never
Come
Like
Know
Most
Just
Then
Thing
Let's face it, I'm not winning a fight with anybody - unless it's against someone like Larry David.
Benny Blanco
Fight
Face
Unless
Someone
Winning
David
Like
Anybody
Against
Larry
My studio's always in my house. I want to wake up and be like, 'You know I'm gonna make music today in my underwear. You know what, I'm gonna be in my pajamas. You know what, I'm actually just gonna stay inside for the next three days so I can make music.'
Benny Blanco
Today
Music
You
Wake Up
Three
Stay
Inside
Studio
Days
Like
Know
House
Make
Always
Underwear
Wake
Up
Just
Want
Gonna
Next
Pajamas
Actually
Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.
Benny Blanco
Life
Time
Crazy
You
Experience
Song
Matter
Somebody
Somewhere
Real Life
Life Experience
Had
Weird
Like
Because
How
Real
Any
Just
Basically
I speak a little Italian and Spanish because of where I grew up. I also am well-versed in Angelino slang and corporate Euro-speak. I don't like gimmicks. The biggest gimmick of all is trying to fit in and be 'normal'. I will always be myself no matter what. Crazy is a compliment. Flashback.
Benny Cassette
Myself
Crazy
Speak
Matter
Will
Corporate
Compliment
Gimmick
Like
Also
Because
Always
Am
Italian
Normal
Fit
Up
Trying
Flashback
Where
Grew
Biggest
Spanish
Little
Slang
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