Chester Bennington Quotes
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You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live
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I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.
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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.
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It's not cool to be an alcoholic.
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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
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I don't go out and pick fights.
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I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself.
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You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.
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Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.
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Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.
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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.
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Touring for two years is excruciating.
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We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
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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.
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It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.
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Our Fans are the best fans in the world , don't mess with them
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To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
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Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.
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My favorite jellybean is the pink one with the flavor inside.
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Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.
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Alright...here's the deal. What's happening in this piece is very simple, over here on this side...you see that there is a very scared little kinda guy over there...wanna know why he's scared? Because this guy over here is trying to eat him.
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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.
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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.
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Atom bombs, something's wrong. D.E.A sent to Guam. Acid Trips, big fat chics. Purple Finstone Vitamins.All the needy rich are greedy. I find out you don't need me. Berlin wall starts to fall. I trip out to the wall. Hooray Horrah
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For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
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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.
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There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.
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I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.
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You think I'm stupid. Stay out of my way. You think I'm stupid.
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If fans come up to me, I talk to them.
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