Chester Bennington Quotes

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

The rule in music land is never doody in the bus and never doody in the RV.

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.

What's the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people's lives. Where I've either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That's the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can't get that back.

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

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.

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

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.

This is a business of love and labor.

I was a geek who thought I was cool. I didn't hang out with a particular clique, but with different people from different cliques. I was a total nerd, trying to fit in. Luckily, I found music and that was my niche. That sorta took me out of my geekdom. I was never invited to parties as a teenager - I turned up with the popular people. That's where the lyrics to 'Guilty By Association' came from.

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

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There was another time when Mike was really foul mood and we had to make a pit stop so he could use a porta potty. Mike went to use the porta potty and we were waiting inside 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 in it! Then we attacked him with air freshener

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

I try so hard and got so far in the end it doesn't even matter

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

As an artist, I want a reaction.

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.

When you're young artist, it's really important to like pay attention to what you're doing and be honest with yourself and in the creative proccess.

You think I'm stupid. Stay out of my way. You think I'm stupid.

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.

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

Our Fans are the best fans in the world , don't mess with them

Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world - kids who don't want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.

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

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

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

Touring for two years is excruciating.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.