Despite their garnered fame over the years, the members of Good Charlotte have seemingly managed to remain humble and true to who they are. In 2016, they released Youth Authority, their first album in six years, under their own independent label, MDDN. During an interview with Newsweek in July, Benji revealed that the band was so burnt out by the music industry's focus on making money that they had lost their creative drive, admitting he didn't know if they "were going to come back." Thankfully they did, and now Benji says their new mission statement is to guide young artists:
"We feel like we have this new quest in our careers to tell artists the truth — to take our experiences and share them with younger artists and help nurture [them] . . . We went into the world and got served. It was a rude awakening in so many ways. We had all the success a couple of records in. In a very genuine way, we really wanted to make people happy, we wanted approval — the label, the industry. The last couple of records we were making for other people, not for ourselves. We were trying to have a hit so people would say 'good job' . . . That led us full circle back to this place where all of a sudden Good Charlotte belonged to us again and it felt like it was time."
