Benji Quotes

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.

Person: "Hey Benji, were you doing drugs before the show?"

Benji: (Laughter) "Nah, I don't do drugs."

"Keep representin' GC, 'cause you know we're representin' you!"

Person: "Alotta people have that tattoo *points to spiderweb 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!"

A person told Benji that he backed into a parked car on the way to a show and Benji 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!"

Interviewer: "Benji, with all your piercings have you got your 'Prince Albert' done?"

Benji: "Ahahahahahaha...(innocently asks) Who's Prince Albert?..."

Interviewer: "Can you dance?"

Benji: "I can freak"

Girl: I'm only coming to the night show.
Benji: What?! There goes my heart walking down the street.

"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."

"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 a 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." (Benji Says After Joel Says. "I got all the heys.")

"I like to rip tags off mattresses."

"Someone call the fire department this one's out of control!" (Said while shaking his hips back and forth to techno music in the backround...) (He said this outside the club they played at a while before, that turned into a dance club...)

"Joel your gloves suck!"

"That's funny, we were just talking about sex!"

"That performance really moved me...I gotta go now."

"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."

"Awww. Thanks, you get a hug for that!"

"Corruption? What's that? No, we probably corrupted each other."

"My ass smells like Joel."

"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!"

"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!'"

"Tonight I'm spooning with Tom on my couch!" (Referring to MxPx.)

"I sell out every day, I say give me five bucks and I'll give you a kiss."

"That's surprising [that he smells 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!"

"I'm the self-proclaimed leader of the band."

"Nickelback, Default, Adema, etc., etc., make me want to stick a fork in my eye." - Benji

"I can disappear, watch" *gets 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 (fighting with Joel)

"They symbolize that I can do what I want. They ensure that I will never work a regular job." (about his tatoos and piercings)

"I'm learning Italian right now. 'Grazie.' "

"It's a weird story actually. We were all gong to your mom's house. We all got there at the same time and met on the porch." ( about how the band met)

"Getting beat." (about his best childhood memory)

"We're kids from Waldorf."

"I don't have a phone."

"State your position!"

"Uh, my names Benji... I grew up in Waldorf. Single white male. Enjoys long walks on the beach. In search of someone sensitive and caring for conversation, friendship, possible serious relationship, coffee, or a good book."

"Everybody clap!"

"When I meet girls I like, I throw up on them!"

"One time, I ripped Joel's nipples off!"

"One time I pierced Paul's butt cheeks together!"

"Where do you work?"

"Can I open this now?"

"So you can buy these at any craft store?"

"This is the get better sign."

"This is Joel at the mall... 'Hey girl, who you with? You ever heard that song 'Little Things'? Yo, that's about me, girl... Awww yeah...'"

"Did we mention we know John from Goldfinger?"

"Ovary?"

"Joel wants to be an actor."

"Steve Feinberg took the little GC seed and maximized it. Steve was the pit bull we needed. He's more than our manager."

"I fell off the stage and all my clothes fell off! And I wet my pants... but they fell off, so I couldn't wet them, so it must have been the kid standing next me."

"If I wasn't in the band, I'd be in jail."

"Good evening boys and girls! Welcome to the Nutcracker. This is Rob Tim, I will crack your nuts. Today I'm going to teach you a little lesson about life, the Rob Tim way."

"This is the makeout song. Although you should ask the person first, 'cause I've had some troubles with that before." (during Seasons)

"We like to go to shopping malls and harrass people."

"What's my official statement? My official statement is... that I've been wearing the same underwear for the the past four days!"

"I used to work at Target!"

"Good Charlotte is the name of a children's book, just this weird, freaky little book..."

"I haven't taken a shower in four days, I guess that makes me more punk."

"I always got caught. One time, I actually got spanked for something Joel did."

"Hold on, you can make fun of me when Im done making my point."

"To have a good influence on the world and kids. Stay true to God and my family and make the world a better place, plant a flower and paint a horse, to pick up trash and then light everything on fire." (about his life goals)

"She's so punk-y!" - (about Avril Lavigne)

"Hey, you guys wanna know Joel's middle name? Wanna know Joel's middle name? Joel's middle name is Reuben!"

"We actually grew up Amish."

"And while we're here in Orlando, we have to give a shout out to our buddies N*SYNC!"

"Because I care, because I love you. Because it's a must. Because, BECAUSE YOU NEED CLEAN SOCKS!" (to Joel)

"Mother says I need to try to look more respectable."

"Hooked on Phonics worked for me!"

"We were put together by the label. We had to try out in a gymnasium. No, I'm just kidding. That's how the Backstreet Boys got together!" (about how GC was formed)

"I usually hit my head on the wall."

"We rented a car while we are here at the studio and I already put a huge scratch on the side."

"I'm too lazy."

"We're all gonna run around naked and make animal noises!"

"One time we went around the neighborhood and stuck all the mailbox flags up! Or, or there was this one time we drove up to fast food places, ordered tons of food, paid for it, then drove off before we got it."

"I was in a boy band myself..."

"I have to go do MY nails now!"

"Punk rockers have feelings, too!"

"Positive, positive, everything is positive!"

"We're not the type of band that's too cool for school."

"Music has just become more than I ever thought it would ever be. Its my life now. Its kind of like a tool and I really think its like a prism. Every musician and songwriter is sort of filtering through the same stuff, but its all coming out in different ways. When you look at a prism at different angles, the light is always gonna be a little different. Each musician might filter in a different way. I have a really big respect for people who do music. Even if I dont like it, I respect they are making music and working hard."

"It's amazing the fun you can have with 99 cents."

"I wanted to do something different. It started out as just a bleached spot, and I wanted some color, why not pink?"

"Our car is weighed down with crazy hoes!"

"Well, I don't think there's anything wrong with being feminine..."

"Music is the one thing I believe in spending money on. It's the business I'm in, and I like other artists, especially independent artists."

"The craziest fan we encountered showed up at our house one time...they just wanted to come in and hang out....it freaked us out a little."

"It's just getting started, but it should be up and running by summer. We're still narrowing down what the first band we really want to get behind, when you find a band you really like, you're like 'It's cool if you can help them out.'" (About his new record label)

"We were trouble makers...then one day I had an epiphany and realized that you can go around in a bad mood all of the time, but it won't do any good." (About his and Joel's childhood)

"Joel's mic was getting feedback near the end of 'Riot Girl' so after the song he went back to get a new one, while I was left to stall the crowd. So I said "One day I'll find the girl of my dreams and we'll be 100 years old with old wrinkly tattoos and look really gross and have sex without regret."