Quotes from Chester Bennington

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

My favorite jellybean is the pink one with the flavor inside.

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special.

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.

As an artist, I want a reaction.

We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America.

When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.

Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible.

Touring for two years is excruciating.

I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself.

This is a business of love and labor.

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.

Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.

We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'

What helps us stay relevant is that we haven't really set out on this musical experience to reach a destination. We consider the whole thing a journey. So it's not like we stopped off at Rock Island and now we're stranded there. We actually just get onboard the boat and let the winds take us where it will.