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Mike: The best thing I'd ever done is when my brother went to oversea and I came back home as a Christmas present.
Chester: In a box.
Mike: Yes, in a box.
MTV: Let's talk about your success.
You've sold over a million records...
Mike: We've sold over a million records?
Chester: We did?
MTV: Have you?
Mike: Whoa!!
Mike: "Rob."
Rob: "Hi, how's it going?"
Mike: "Any thoughts, concerns?"
Rob: "No, just chillin with Big Ben."
Mike: We are renaming the band to Blinkin'sync-182.
"Move over guys. Make room for Avril Lavigne, she's a big star. We're only a little rock band (being sarcastic)" - Chester
Interviewer: Have you ever considered cuddling with a Popple or a Wuzzle or even perhaps a Madball while on stage?
Mike: No, but I've considered setting one on fire, extinguishing it with my urine, smashing it flat with my noggin, and eating it with a side of Mongolian beef.
Chester-I'm a fashion bitch!
"If it ain't broke, break it, then superglue it together. When your done, give it to a friend" - Joe
Brad-I'm getting a new tattoo, it's going on Chester's left arm
Joe-I'm getting flames on my wrists
Brad-I'm getting Joe's on my flames
Mike-I'm getting water on my wrists
Brad-I'm getting wrists on my....I give up.
"We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs.....some of us like to go sightseeing." - Mike
Chester: And here is our bedroom
Brad: yeah it's our bedroom
Chester: No, it's not our bedroom, it belongs to my wife and I
"We know who we are and we're not going to change that." - Chester
Chester: We kind of just like ninjas and dark tunnels and fire.
Mike: And guys with big hair that look like werewolves.
Chester: Grr! Arr!
Brad: I want to know if Joe Hahn sleeps in the nude?
Mike: Yes he does (wink wink).
Phoenix: Oh my God, they killed Kenny!
Chester: Huh? Lenny?
Joe: Lenny Kravitz?
Phoenix: No I said Kenny! Southpark, you know!
Chester: Mr. Hanky rules! Pooooooopoooo!
Phoenix: My favorite color is clear.
Chester: "There was another time when Mike was in a really foul mood and we had to make a pit stop so he could use the porta potty.
Mike: "CHESTER?"
Joe: "I remember this one!"
Chester: "Anyways, Mike went to use the porta Potty and we were in the RV, It was Joe's Idea, But we all got out and started to rock the thing back and forth. We didn't mean to, but we ended up tipping the porta potty over while Mike was still in it".
Mike: "That's not funny!'
Joe: "Yeah it was. You should have seen the look on his face when you got outta there!"
Rob: "Mike was covered in crap, he had to strip down before we let him back on the bus because he smelled so bad!"
Chester: "Then we attacked him with air freshener."
Brad: "Lysol!"
"We're not very photogenic!" - Brad
"I'm just a regular guy, you know? There's no leotard and cape under my clothes. I shit, I piss, I drink too much and throw up, just like everybody else." - Chester
"In this country, people do not think about the sensivity of young men. It's a real tradegy. For kids to be able to listen to listen to bands like us who are able to express ourselves - not through violence and vulgarity - I think it helps them learn to express themselves." - Chester
"I always wanted to be a rockstar. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up."
- Chester
Rocktribe asks whether they'd also had an input in their video to "One Step Closer."
Brad and Mike suddenly gasp in mock horror and put their hands over their mouths.
JOE: Uh-oh. Joe's gotta answer a question....They let us do pretty much what we wanted to...
MIKE: Who's they?
JOE: The guys at the record company over there because they don't really have any creative people there anyway.
MIKE and BRAD: Dude, what are you saying!!???
JOE: What? Our A&R guy?
MIKE: Are you saying that our A&R guy couldn't direct a video? (Joe shoves his head in his hands and gives up the ghost entirely)
JOE: I can't do this. I don't know what's happening...
--You directed the video?
JOE: No, I came up with the storyboard.
MIKE: Joe copped out on that answer.
BRAD: If we answered every question like that...The fact is that Joe did the original treatment and he's just being modest.
JOE: At least I'm not being arrogant like you fucks.
"Our Lincoln Park is in Santa Monica, CA. But when we started national touring, everyone thought we were a local band wherever we went, because there are so many Lincoln Parks everywhere. It was basically our band joke: we were local everywhere we went." - Mike
"My favourite jellybean is the pink one with the flavour inside." - Chester
"We are making our way to actually becoming a boy band. Our first video is gonna have all of us in a shower wearing white linen suits, crying and pointing at the camera. We definetly want to start wearing matching outfits, choreographing, and lip-syncing our live show." - Mike
Joe: I have an ass, its a nice ass but I don't go around showing it off like Chester does all the time!
Mike: Yeah but you've shown it off once or twice!
Joe: Well that's different. I'm not like Chester.
Chester: Yeah I'm the assmaster!!!!
"It has never been our goal to be like popular, if you ask different people in the band they will have different answers, but my goal was to blend the different types of music, and not to say, this is going to be the hip hop part and this is going to be the rock part, we want you to hear our songs and know that you're listening to Linkin Park." - Mike
"I think, in the lyrics, we're generally a little more introverted, a little more just trying to be honest and sum up some of these everyday universal emotions that we all feel. And that is something that's hopefully, just as individual as the way each person talks." - Mike
"We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America." - Chester
RT: What are you going to do in London? A few drinkypoos,
MIKE: We actually got a present from our record company out here, they greeted us with alcohol. Cases of lager.
BRAD: Which is great because some of us don't really drink so its nice, but like...
RT: Well, this is London.
BRAD: Well I'm not going to drink it...
MIKE: You'd better drink it, or I'm going to force it down your throat.
BRAD: ...Its like, great, vodka. Thanks.
MIKE: Which just means that there's more for Joe.
JOE: (who has so far been sitting in an enigmatic silence, pipes up suddenly) "Yeah. I'm a whore."
"Come to the shows, come and meet us, because we love to hang out, everytime we have a show we will come to our merchandise booth and we will meet all of you and talk and sign autographs or whatever, just come out." - Mike
"We're pretty straight guys: we're not boozers, we're not fucked up on drugs." - Chester
And here's the WHOLE interview of the 'London guard' interview:
MIKE: You know those guards with the hats? The ones that don't move.
--The guards at Buckingham Palace?
MIKE: Yeah. Can you touch them?
--I think so.
MIKE: Can you, like, stick your thumb in their butts and they won't move?
BRAD: At what point would they like, destroy you?
--Why do you ask?
JOE: In America we have an ice cream called a Big Stick and we want to stick one of those up their asses.
--Can I film it?
"We write a lot of the songs together. The choruses are so important for example that everybody has a little bit of say in what goes on. You never hurt anybody's feelings by talking about any parts of the songs. Everybody has their say and writes the songs and we're all really proud of what we've come up with." - Mike
"We go for raw emotions, not just some story about a social situation. We mainly focus on laying out an emotional starting point from which the listener can begin relating their own story." - Chester
--Do you feel famous?
BRAD: Do you think we're famous? All I know is that at the show last night we didn't have passes...and yet there were....a...OK...(To Mike) You tell the story.
MIKE: My story was that I showed up late. I was busy doing other things.
BRAD: Mike is never late.
MIKE: Whatever, I showed up a half hour before the show and we got up to the door and the guy stopped us. He says, 'Where's your passes?' and I'm looking past him and there's like these 5 foot posters with our faces on and just for a second I was thinking 'You idiot.' but then my second thought was 'Well cool, I can walk through this club right now and not get stopped by anyone'.
--You're turning into Spinal Tap already?
MIKE: Only in the sense that we can't find the stage.
BRAD: We try to be life imitating art as much as possible when it comes to Spinal Tap.
"We're not a bunch of goody-two shoes, but we do have responsibilities to ourselves and our families and the people in this group, and we respect that." - Chester
BRAD: There's like this whole rock star thing where you're supposed to get drunk and party and all that, but if you think about it, all the great bands of the last few decades were destroyed by drugs and alcohol and for all the talk about the record industry being more responsible with bands who have problems, they actually want you to live up to this antiquated mystique about what a rock star should be.
--The Iggy Pop syndrome?
BRAD: They almost encourage it, and I'm like, "that's not what I'm about."
JOE: Speaketh for thyself.
MIKE: Joe is a rockstar...He has his own hairdresser, his own wardrobe case with all leathers in it, and he has to be doped up on something to do a show.
"We support free music. So go ahead! Download that shit!" - Mike
Q: What's your plans for Valentine's Day?
Chester: Masturbation.
Rob: I live on a bus!
Mike: yeah, I live on a bus, that's my home.
Chester: Not only that, but I can't sleep anywhere, but on the fuckin' bus! I need to buy a bus and park it in front of my house, so that when I go home at night when I go to bed, I just go to the bus, or I need to install a half of a bus in my room, with bunks, so I can sleep in it.
Mike: Some kid told someone else they can get banned for calling us assholes.
Anna: Mike, you're an asshole.
Chester: Oh man...I think I disconnected or something.
Interviewer: What type of machine are you using?
Chester: It's called a computer.
"We want to give people a starting block with the lyrics so that they can relate their own story to it. Our songs come from something that happened to us or an emotion that we feel. We want it put out there in a way that is as accurate to the way we feel as we can say it." - Mike
"We want to give people a starting block with the lyrics so that they can relate their own story to it. Our songs come from something that happened to us or an emotion that we feel. We want it put out there in a way that is as accurate to the way we feel as we can say it." - Mike
--So how important has the Internet been in your development.
MIKE: Well, www.linkinparkporn.com has been a very important part of our lives....
"We just want to be honest and not hide any emotions with vulgarity." - Chester
MIKE: Chester and I met at a male strip club.
CHESTER: We were both trying to get jobs there as dancers.
MIKE: And it just didn't work out....because my butt wasn't big enough.
CHESTER: Yeah and I've got what they call the crispy cream which is a little fat area around my belly button which is kinda like a donut.
MIKE: Its from eating too many donuts.
Brad: Jones soda rules!
Mike: I like the green apple.
Joe: Hehe green froggie apple!
Chester: Crushed mellon is good!
Rob: Hehehe you said mellon!
Mike: Mellon...Mellons...Bozoooooms!
Joe- I lost my house, can I have yours?
Interviewer: With the ever-growing plethora of boy-bands, teen pop singers, and other trend-following bands that seem to be continuously emerging in the music scene, what are your thoughts on this commercialization of popular music?
Linkin Park: We are making our way to actually becoming a boy band. Our first video is gonna have all of us in a shower wearing white linen suits, crying and pointing at the camera. We definitely want to start wearing matching outfits, choreographing, and lip-syncing our live show.
Joe-Mike got up and walked over there, looked at the TV, sat on the table and broke it
Mike-I put my (laughing) I put my fat ass on the table and I broke it! Oh my God I am so embarrassed
Joe-Now we are taking apart the table and hiding it in the hopes that the hotel doesn't notice and make us pay for it
Q-Do you guys break stuff to releive tension? I heard alot of bands do that?
Joe- Mike likes to break glass tables
Mike-Joe likes to break wind
CHESTER: There's this 13-year-old kid from Pittsburgh. He comes up to us and goes, "I'm stalking you dude, and when you reach the peak of your success I'm going to kill you." Then, during the show he's down in the front telling Mike that he wants to "rape his soul"! I think that's cool, but he probably needs to chill out a bit.
Mike: I have a toothbrush... my toothbrush is sexy
Chester: Have you ever played the Penis Game?
Cane: WHAT?!
Chester: The Penis Game!
Cane: What the hell is that?!
Chester: Wanna play it with me?
Cane: Uh, no thanks!
Mike: Oh come on, you know you do!
Cane: Would someone mind telling me what the hell the Penis Game is?
Chester: Its where I slap you with my penis!
Joe: No its not! Someone says Penis really quietly and then someone else repeats but in a louder tone and then it keeps going and going until it gets really loud and the loudest person wins!
Cane: Oh, okay.
Joe: Penis!
Brad: Phoenix has no penis!
Phoenix: Now that you mention it, my name kinda rhymes with Penis!
Joe: No it doesn't!
Joe: I like, uh, kinda borrowed a few bucks from you, uh, Rob.
Rob: A few bucks? That's okay... how much did you take?
Joe: (whew) oh, just about $250 dollars or so...
Rob: WHAT!!!
Joe: Hey, you said it was alright.... (hehe)
Rob: When you gonna pay me back??!!
Joe Thinks: "Hehe, when I FEEL like it...."
Mike: (calls out from the other side of the room) Hey, Joe!!!
Joe: What?!
Mike: Go away!!!
Joe: What the hell is it with you and Jiggly Puff's?
Chester: What the hell is it with you and frogs?
Joe: Don't disrespect the almighty froggie!
Chester: Oooooh I'm scared! Should I run?
Joe: Yes very, very fast.
Brad: The best thing I'd ever done to Joe's parents was pretends that we were friends.
Q: So how do you guys like fame?
Mike: We're famous?
Chester: Are you sure?
Phoenix: Subfamous!
Mike: That's craptacular!
"I think that it's a melting pot where we've got a lot of things that come together but in the end they all just gel and just become one song and that's what is most important to us. It's just a song. It's not the rap part and the rock part and the electronic part and the singing part and the rapping and the screaming and the whispering." - Mike
Phoenix: Chester likes to grab his package like Michael Jackson.
Mike: I didn't know Chester had a package?
Joe: Yeah its somewhere down there.
Mike: You need to get a little clamp for that bracelet, so you don't have to pick it up every time you want to reach down! (Chester starts hitting him.) I'm not banging on you, bro, I just used to have the same problem!
Chester: It's art, dude, OK?! I'm not into image, it's fucking art!
Mike: Art? Whatever!
Interveiwer: With all the metal that you wear about your person, do you have problems when you go through airports?
Mike: You have no idea! Brad's pants are down around his ankles, 'cause his pants are too big and his belt's all made of metal, Chester has to take off 50 things it's a joke! And the best thing is, he's obsessive compulsive. Tell her about how you arrange your bracelets when you take them off!
Chester: No.
Mike: I'll tell her about it! Chester takes off his bracelets when he's going through the metal detector at the airport and he has this bag with those of those handles that pulls up, so there's a long hanger and he arranges them on that. He takes them off in the same order every time and puts them in the same places and arranges them perfectly.
Chester: I'm disgusting, because I do that with my baggage too. All my bags specifically fit in a certain way really well I can't have disorganised bags! And when I go grocery shopping, I'm the same way; boxed items like detergents have to be separated from the food, and then all cans go together, all meats go together, and therefore it's easier to unload when you get home.
Interveiwer: But surely it's only common sense to separate your detergents from your fresh food, so they don't get tainted with a soapy taste?
Chester: Yes, but you see people tossing whatever they grab first into the bag. Not with me. It has to be done a specific way every time.
Mike: This is like the most involved answer about produce that I have ever heard in my life!
Brad: *doing devil horns* \m/ "I learned this at the Ozzfest, I don't know what it means though.
Joe: Chester has a foul mouth.
Chester: fuck fuck fuck?
Mike: Bagawk!
Chester: I said fuck, not cluck!
MIKE: (SNIFFS).. AWWWWW WHO LAYED THE EGG ( LOOKS AT CHESTER)
CHESTER: (SMILES) QUACK QUACK
Mike: mike is so hot....oops, i mean joe
Chester-I'm a big dork.
Mike-You have a big dork too.
Chester-Yes I know.
cameraman: whatcha got there joe?
Joe: well, I've got some wet toilet paper here. I'm gonna throw it at pedestrians.
MIKE: My walls are about 3 inches thick and my neighbours must have thought people were dying in my house! The whole neighbourhood could hear it!
CHESTER: And you'd hear someone go, "You fucking SUCK! Shut up!"
MIKE: I think we were subliminally influenced for the bridge on 'One Step Closer' by my neighbours; "SHUT UP! I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!"
CHESTER: At 10 o'clock every night, we'd hear (bangs his fist against the wall) and that was our alarm, so we almost ended up naming the band 'Ten PM Stocker', cuz we recorded on Stocker Street every night and at 10 PM, we had to stop.
Shoutweb: What would your name be as a professional wrestler?
Mike: I'm not a wrestler. I'm a manager. Our wrestling partners are our other singer, Chester, and our DJ, Mr. Hahn... they're the Sugar Brothers.
Chester: When i retire from music, I actually plan to become a profesional wrestler, Im going to be the smallest professional wrestler in history and my manager is Mr. Hahn. We're called the sugar brothers. My profesional move which takes down everybody is i just run around in circles until that, ya know, the competition falls over from exhaustion and then Joe comes in and pins them because i'm too small and i run. See and that's how i'm gonna take the championship that way. SUGAR BROTHERS!!! ....sorry...
Brad: Um yeah... i'm Big Bad Brad the intellectual wrestler, i wrestle people with my mind. like you don't even know right now but im pinning you to the ground.
Chester: Yeah, he's taking you down.
Brad: You're goin down.
Chester: How many of you are pissed right now?
Audience: (cheers)
Chester: Good. See in America that means you're mad but, here it means you're happy. Whoo!
"If I weren't passionate about this, I'd do something else I was passionate about. We hope a lot of people will get something out of the music we're making. That's why we're in a band - it's communication." - Brad
cameraman: where you going Brad?
Brad: Red Light District!
Mike: We're not like other bands you know. We actually visit our website and care about our internet fans. We visit as many fansites as possible.
Joe: Yes and I like to send threatening emails to people.
Phoenix: No you don't.
Joe: Yes I do! Shh, its supposed to be a secret!
"There's wacky girls all over the place that try doing weird things, but we don't pay attention to them. We just kind of do our thing and hang out with the fans that are really important to us." - Chester
Dynamic Rock: Is there anything about the band and its members that nobody knows about and you would like to share with us?
Linkin Park: Mr. Hahn has a split personality named Remy. Remy is a dangerous man. He keeps the rest of us on our toes.
"We've been hit and broken things. Brad's guitar has hit me in the head before. I actually threw up in my mouth in Des Moines." - Mike
Mike: Thank you, Brad. Brad is so kind. He's here for my moral support. Without Brad I think I'd be pretty bummed out on tour, because he's the only one who gives me any moral support. Everyone else makes fun of me -especially Mr. Hahn!
Q: Do you have any wild stories or embarassing moments to share, while living on the road?
Mike: I almost ran over Chester with a golf cart when we were in Florida.
Chester: That was pure evil.
Interviewer: Who has the worst habits in the band?
Chester: I would say that I'm probably the most annoying. There's a reason for it.
Mike: NO!
Brad: C'mon Chester!
Chester: I'm always touching them in their privates!
Brad: Yeah, Chester the molester!
"We try to meet as many fans as possible. If we could meet everyone at the venue, that would be great, but sometimes it's impossible. I hope that they walk away thoroughly enjoying the band. And just become fans and enjoy the music that we make." - Chester
Mike: I'm going to sprout wings out of my ass one day and fly around the world.
Chester: Sounds like fun, can I join you?
Why does Brad wear headphones in concert?
Brad: Brad cannot reveal his inspiration.
Mike: When Brad's being mysterious he speaks in the third person.
Mike: When Mike speaks in the third person he makes himself crazy.
Brad: Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich.
Mike: I think Chester is full of himself and I think thats really hot!
Chester: Yeah, sometimes at night, your full of me too.
CHESTER: ..."everybody get out your lighters and hold em up"(its dark and the lighters are up) "I like that...it makes me feel like I'm on acid"
"It seems like a lot of more mainstream type kids are getting into what we are doing. When i was in high school, if certain people started liking my bands, I felt like I couldn't like that band anymore; it was like, the idiots were ruining it for me. I don't want to alienate our real fans, you know? I don't want the kids who were with us from the early days to feel like there isn't room for them anymore." - Mike
Everyday when I get ready, I look in the mirror and say, over and over again, ‘must become an action figure, must become an action figure.’-Chester Bennington
Q: What was the hardest part about making the album?
Mike: Sitting in the same room with Brad for two months. But then we got on tour and it just got worse.
Brad: I didn't shower a lot then.
Mike: He showers less now.
PRP: If forced by a gunpoint by a militant mutant giraffes, would you do a tutu and sing Sea Shanty's on live TV?
Mike: Sure. What color tutu? Would you sing with me?
'The best thing I'd ever done to my parents was learning to use the toilet.' - Chester
JOE: Yes I do think Britney's boobies are fake!
MIKE: Hehe boobies!
CHESTER: I like small boobies. Small ones are just right. Big ones are baaad. I'd be afraid that I'd get suffocated by them if they were too big.
"I chew my fingernails a lot, I think that's my little nervous habit. That's one of my ways to relieve stress. If you see me chew my nails, I'm probably nervous about something." - Chester
Brad: Mike, were you like in a pop group before Linkin Park?
Mike: I was in menudo
Brad: I heard that you can sing and dance real nice. Is it true you had a fight with Ricky Martin, and that's why they kicked you out? or was it the age thing?
Mike: ricky is an ass. he's just bitter 'cause my name was first on the first cd
CHESTER: and they made me in college in a chemistry class. They copied Frankenstein's work and used pieces of dead people, which is why I have to wear this (touches his spiked collar), to hide the scar tissue.
MIKE: except we were in art school. That was the whole problem. In art school, and there were no really good chemistry classes - so look what we came up with!
Shoutweb: You guys are "the buzz band".
Mike: The "buzz" band... are we popular? Are we in with the cheerleaders? We're going to get some pom-poms and yell our name.
Mike- We can't have any new songs.............our record label won't pay people to write us new songs until we get the dance moves to our Clairol commercial right.
Joe-My butt hurts. I've been sitting in this damn chair signing stuff for a half an hour and they won't let me get up and walk around. Big old bodyguards say oooga boooga.
Brad-Did you know that I hear voices?
Mike-He does and sometimes they speak to us too.
Brad: "Rather than just stealing your shit they ask if they can steal it. Chester came back into the dressing room without his shoes or clothes or basically anything of him. He was like 'you know what, people are so polite about taking my stuff that I gave it to them'."
Chester: Shut up when I'm talking to you before I whip out my friend and give you mushroom stamps!
Mike: Yeah, your little friend haha!
Chester: Oh you would know wouldn't you?
Mike: Oh baby, you know it!
Mike: I chipped a tooth on a mic once. I hurt my back in the pit. Chester got spit on. We got human fescies thrown on us. We got a sign one time when we were playing with Union Underground a couple of months ago that said, "Go Back To The Suburbs". Chester held it up and said, "We love fan mail." In the beginning they were talking some trash but by the end they were signing up for our street team. Chester kissed both of them on the face. The kids standing around were rolling on the floor laughing. I'm trying to think because I know there have been way more casualties. We've been hit and broken things. Brad's guitar has hit me in the head before. I actually threw up in my mouth in Des Moines.
"I learned not to be outside at dusk wearing shorts and a T-shirt in Biloxi, Mississippi... the insects apparently have no sympathy for tourists." - Phoenix
Brad: I met Chester at the Brixton show in the UK
Mike: Chester signed my boob.
Joe: Me too!
Brad: I gave him a bracelet
"Unfortunately, that park (Lincoln Park, the park that Chester got his idea to rename the band to Linkin Park) has been renamed the Christine Emerson Reed Park, so we're actually thinking about changing our name to Christine Emerson Reed Park and making Linkin Park the name of the second record, just to keep the consistency." - Brad
MIKE: Chester, why do you have to wear all those spikes? You're gonna poke someone's eyes out. That's all he does is pull that thing up because it's always slipping down his wrist.
CHESTER: (starts punching Mike in the arm) It's art! It's fucking art!
"Mike is a genius, Trent Reznor-talented." - Brad
"After a long year out of the band, it's been incredible to rejoin and be back in the mix. I appreciate everyone who supports us both on the website and at our live shows more than I could ever express. To be afforded the opportunity to do something I've always loved, with a bunch of friends, is truly a blessing. Thank You." -Phoenix
Mike: Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
Chester: And sometimes you feel like my nutts.
Mike: I'm not a very reading person, I like to look at pictures.
Chester: Mike likes porno.
Mike:I don't like porno. I like graphics...
What do you think of all the little teenie boppers out there liking you for your looks and not your music?
Joe-They aren't teenie boppers! They're Linkie Boppers!
Brad: You know what Andre? How many times must we have this conversation? I can't use a green pic with a green screen.
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