Chester bennington

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.

Touring for two years is excruciating.

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

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

I don't go out and pick fights.

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

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

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.

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

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