Quotes from Chester Bennington


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


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


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.


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


If fans come up to me, I talk to them.


I don't go out and pick fights.


We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.


We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming.


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.


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


This is a business of love and labor.


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


The fans are the biggest reason we do what we do.


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


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


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


As an artist, I want a reaction.


It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.


Touring for two years is excruciating.


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