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Mike is sponsored by Clairol.-Joe
Mike is also sponsored by Joe.-Brad

Joes hair is actually implants.-Brad

Brad, talk about your personal life.-Mike
Mike, live about your personal talk.-Brad

We are renaming the band to Blinkinsync 182-Mike
Oh, I have an important announcement to make Phoenix, a.k.a. our bass player, has officially adopted a new alias. From now on, he demands to be called POWERFUL.-Brad

Brad is the best turn-tablist ever.-Joe

Mike is in the underground-Brad
Whats the underground?-Mike
Joe is slightly above ground-Brad
I am the celestial over ground.-Joe
And as for me, Im grounded.-Brad

Mike, can you bring me a sandwich?-Brad

Were going to be coming out with Linkin Park toilet paper.-Brad

Brad is a pop diva.-Mike
Mike is a pop diva-Brad

Getting on stage is the best part of the day.-Mike
and showering.Brad
with Joe.-Mike

I like champagne-Joe
I like a new band called Mr. Hahn and the Mike Shinoda Six.-Brad

He built our set and there were these little stairways with a ledge. Nathan Cox, who co-directed the video with Joe, wanted me to jump off this five-foot thing. May be it was three feet, but it makes it sound better if I say it was five feet-rad

Mike: (after filming In The End) I hear were gonna use another element in the next video, like fire of something.
Brad: Thats not funny.

Shoutweb: Where are you? They told me that you would be calling from the RV travelling across the country.
Mike: We just got out of Dallas, the biggest and most confusing airport in the world. It's so big and so ridiculously complex. They don't need to make it as difficult as it is.
Shoutweb: What's complex about it?
Mike: It's got too many driveways and all these ramps. You need to go on at least five ramps per street. Let's put it this way, I'm not used to it and it confused the hell out of me!
Shoutweb: You're not driving at the moment, are you?
Mike: I am not driving. I'm in the back of the RV being car sick.
Shoutweb: Oh no!
Mike: Yeah, I'm totally car sick right now. I was laying sideways or something. You know how when you read and you're driving, do you ever get that?
Shoutweb: Yeah, motion sickness. That's the worst.
Mike: I'm retarded. What's up there?

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.
Shoutweb: What is this I heard about him getting naked?
Mike: Chester? He just likes to show his butt. He wouldn't have the tights that most wrestlers have. He would have a G-string.
Shoutweb: Does he at least work out? Does he have some buns on him or what? (laughter)
Mike: No, he doesn't have any buns. He's a scrawny little guy like me.
Shoutweb: Well, I'm a photographer so maybe when we do a photo shoot we can explore that.
Mike: That will be fun. Maybe he can give you a little butt-ocks.

Shoutweb: So, is everybody healthy?
Mike: No! Not me. Germs and more germs in the camper.
Shoutweb: You have to keep the temperature cold so germs don't grow. You do know that, don't you?
Mike: Why? This is a germ culivation facility! (laughter) We are culivating new strands of every illness that you can think of. You thought you had the cold that went around the block. We've invented five new mutations of that same cold.

Shoutweb: Chester's got some good vocals going on there.
Mike: He's got some lungs.
Shoutweb: Yeah, some real pipes there!
Mike: He's alright. We'll keep him. Did you hear how we ran into Chester and how we found him in the first place?
Shoutweb: No, you should tell us that for those that haven't heard. Do you know about Shoutweb or should I go into what we're about?
Mike: Oh no. I've been there a number of times!
Shoutweb: Okay, because there are people from all over the world. People from Japan. People from Europe.
Mike: I'm half Japanese. I like Japan.
Shoutweb: Really?
Mike: I'm half Japanese and half hick. That Japanese audience... those are my brothers and my sisters. Those are my peeps. (laughter) But yeah, I totally enjoy the site. We actually have a link to Shoutweb from our web site.

Shoutweb: So how did you find Chester or did Chester find you?
Mike: The band has been together for over four years I believe at this point. I had the idea to start a band like this when I got out of high school. I thought, "These are my friends. This is what we're going to do." Brad, our guitarist, and I were friends since we were thirteen. Joe I had met in college and Rob, or drummer, we had known from a high school nearby. That was in the northern San Fernando valley area. That was all very natural but there came a point a couple of years ago where we wanted and really needed to find somebody who was just an amazing singer. We had been sending out demos and instrumentals. Chester got it and called us about it. He skipped his 23rd birthday party. He just lust left everybody there. He recorded his thing and called us the next morning and said, "Okay, it's done." We were like, "What? It's done already?" He said, "Yeah, how do you want me to get this to you? I'm ready." We said, "Can you play it for us over the phone?" So he played it for us over the phone and we told him to fly out. It was awesome and we were ready and totally convinced.
Shoutweb: When was that?
Mike: That was almost two years ago. (Mike's got a bad cough)
Shoutweb: You sound like you're getting sick.
Mike: Three shows ago I thought I was going to throw up all over myself. I'm not about to skip any shows especially for some stupid sickness. That was probably the hardest show for me to play yet.
Shoutweb: Where was that?
Mike: That was Tulsa, Oklahoma. I played the Dallas show completely exhausted. The Austin show wasn't as bad but the Dallas show was terrible for me. Nobody knew I was sick but I just felt like crap. In Tulsa, Oklahoma I was sick as a dog!

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. (laughter)

Shoutweb: Is that you at the beginning of "Cure For The Itch" doing the emcee part?
Mike: No. It's not me!
Shoutweb: Who is it?
Mike: That's someone else.
Shoutweb: Who?
Mike: That's someone else.
Shoutweb: You better tell. I'm going to tell everyone to e-mail linkinpark@yahoo.com to find out the answer.
Mike: Go ahead. I'll give you a good name. I will tell you it's Remy. Some day you'll figure out what that means.

Shoutweb: Have there been any casualties on tour yet?
Mike: I chipped a tooth on a mic once. I hurt my back in the pit. Chester got spit on. We got human fesces 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.
Shoutweb: Ew... gross!
Mike: This is a good story though. We were playing in Des Moines, Iowa at Hairy Mary's. There was no air conditioning and it was during the middle of the day. The club is tiny. We showed up at noon and everyone who was going to be watching the show was already there drunk and wasted. We got there, set up our stuff, and got ready to play. People had been there for a while and it smelled bad. It was humid and horrible. We played a full set and two songs before the end I couldn't breathe. I was running around like a madman and got nausea and threw up. I didn't want to throw up on anybody so I kept it in my mouth and swallowed it. And then I drank a fat glass of water to wash it away and continued with the set. Brad almost passed out. At the end of the show Brad was resting on his Marshall cabinet or he was going to pass out it was so hot. It was a very difficult show for us.
Shoutweb: It's still gross!

Metal~Is-Who would be your most extreme fan?
Mike-There are a few. I don't mean a few like a select few. I mean, like there're a number of them all over the world. Like, for example, there are kids with tattoos of our logos and different things on them. Just the other day we signed an autograph for somebody and they said they were going to get it tattooed the next morning. We signed it on his back. Even on our crew, our merchandise guy, Joel, he's a good friend of ours, he has our four symbols from the front of our shirt tattooed on his wrists and he's planning to get a different one somewhere else. Obviously, that shows a level of dedication.
But even with something not as permanent as that we've had some really cool things - what's the word I'm looking for? - like exhibitions of loyalty to the band. There's one kid that pooled a bunch of writings from the Internet. He had people write e-mails and found different things from different places and got a bunch of pictures as well, and then he put them together in a book and brought them to us by hand and said, "I've been working on this for a few months now. Here's a book of, basically, letters from your fans and different interpretations of your songs and a lot of pictures of people that you've met in person and really made happy - so this is for you." So he gave it to us. It was the size of a phone book. I mean, it was huge. There were hundreds of pages of fan letters and pictures in there. Stuff like that is really, really important to us and definitely awesome.

MTV: Let's talk about your success. You've sold over a million records...
Mike Shinoda: We've sold a million records?
Chester Bennington: We did?
MTV: Have you?
Shinoda: Whoa!
Bennington: Yeah, we actually did go platinum.
MTV: How does it feel to blow up like this?
Bennington: It's tiring.
Shinoda: Yeah, it's tiring. If the record flopped we'd be really bummed, so we just think about that and it keeps us grounded - like what it would be like if we put it out there and nobody bought it.

MTV: Let's talk about the success of "One Step Closer." When you play that song in front of a crowd, I'm sure they go nuts.
Shinoda: Yeah. "One Step Closer" is really cool because it's short.
Bennington: Yeah, it's short and fun.
Shinoda: It's a great way to end the set and a great chance for kids to -
Bennington: Beat each other up.
Shinoda: Yeah. Get rid of all the energy they got left.
Bennington: Kids really go off on that song, 'cause obviously that's the one everyone has heard. But a lot of kids seem to be paying attention to every song on the record, so what's really cool is the more familiar the crowds are with who we are, they're singing along to every song. There have been points where they've actually overpowered the band, and we've actually stopped playing and let them sing the song and hold the microphones out ... [Shinoda mimes holding out mic] like that - thanks, Mike - and just let them do their thing. It's a lot of fun to actually have to stop playing.
Shinoda: That's actually why we have two singers, so that we can just do that type of thing. Like, when I'm talking, Chester can hold the mic out like so: [Bennington mimes holding out mic] See? We're good at that. That's how it works.
Bennington: We're a team. Wow. Sometimes I'm amazed that we're not just, like, one person.

MTV: Tell us about the video for "One Step Closer."
Shinoda: Please don't ask us what the video is about.
Bennington: There's no plot.
Shinoda: We don't know what this video is about. Joe [Hahn], our DJ, is the only one who knows what it's about, and he won't tell us.
Bennington: He's an alien anyway.
Shinoda: I think that's why he won't tell us, 'cause we wouldn't understand. But our DJ, Mr. Hahn, wrote the original treatment, sent it out to a bunch of directors and lucky for us, they were feeling that. They came back to us with similar treatments.
Bennington: They came back to us with the cost-efficient [version].
Shinoda: It was really similar, and so Joe got a chance to really get in there with our director, Gregory Dark, and make it happen. I think they worked really well together. They went kickboxing together, so I know they hit it off.
Bennington: I think they like each other.
Shinoda: Yeah, they're kind of sweet on each other.
Bennington: We kind of just like ninjas and dark tunnels and fire.
Shinoda: And guys with big hair that look like werewolves.
Bennington: Grr! Arr!
MTV: How did you find the video-making process?
Bennington: Fun, but really tiring. That is one of the most physically challenging things to do, because you're not just going in for your little part. You go in and you pretty much put in a 20-hour day. You're working for the entire time the shoot is going on, 'cause they have to do it very fast.
Shinoda: One of the special things that was going on in our video was it was underground, very far underground. It was really dirty and dusty under there...
Bennington: So there was no oxygen. Just lots of mold and dust.
Shinoda: Yeah. Lots of dust. Meanwhile, while we're playing our song a hundred times over and over, we're also breathing in dirt and not breathing in oxygen.
Bennington: There's nothing like screaming "Shut up" for seven hours straight, upside down. That was another thing - when they hung me upside down, all the blood in my body rested in this small space in my head, 'cause I don't have that big of a melon. It was the most excruciating thing. I felt like my head was going to explode like a pimple. It was kind of gross.

MTV: Do you know what your next single's going to be?
Shinoda: No, what is it going to be? Oh, I thought you were going to tell us.
Bennington: Yeah, what do you think it should be?
MTV: "Points of Authority."
Shinoda: That's weird. Why would he say something like that?
Bennington: I have no idea.
Shinoda: Do you like that song? Is that a good song?
MTV: Yeah.
Shinoda: OK. Thanks!

MTV: Let's talk a bit about how you guys started up the band. How did having the two of you as singers come about?
Bennington: I'm actually a lab experiment. I was raised in a petri dish at the UCLA biomedical center.
Shinoda: And we just grew to like him, so we kept him around.
Bennington: And I just grew.
Shinoda: You're really not going to go on to another question and let us go on that one.
Bennington: He wants a real answer, I think.
MTV: Yes. Two frontmen, it's not something that's common.
Bennington: I think one of the ideas behind it is, in my opinion, bands up to this point that have tried to mix different styles, especially in hip-hop and rock and stuff, there's either a guy who can rap but isn't a very good singer, or it's the opposite: He's a good singer but not necessary that talented as a rapper. Our idea was basically not to even worry about that. We have a really good rapper.
Shinoda: And we have a very good singer. From my point of view, the thing we saw in Chester right away was he's someone that's been singing his whole life, and I'm somebody that's been rapping my entire life, so it just seemed natural. We've spent a lot of time working on what we do.
Bennington: And for some reason we like each other.
Shinoda: He likes me a lot, and I can't stand him.
Bennington: Oh. I guess not, then

Whats the happiest thing you've done 4 your parents?

Mike:The happiest thing i've done 4 my parents was when my brother was at overseas,i went there to take him home and i got lost.

Chester: The happiest thing i've done 4 my parents
was i learn how to use the toilet.

Joe: I have a nice ass!
Chester: No,you have a bigass.
Mike: A big fatass
Some Person: Awwe, don't make fun of Joe's ass!
Joe: Hehehe you said ass!

Chester: I am the yarf king. I can do anything!

Rob: Hehe. You said melons!

To us, Family Values means that Mike can walk around the bus wearing a dress, and it wouldnt matter, cuz we all love him.-Chester

Mike: Chester is helping Ryan Shuck out with his clothing line called Replicant.
Joe: Chester is a fashion whore.
Chester: Fashion B.tch, its fashion b.tch, not fashion whore, theres a big difference.
Joe: There is? Oh, I didnt notice.

Mike is a nut. Thats why we call him MikeNut.-Chester in and interview

Joe: Yes I do think Britneys boobies are fake!
Mike: hehe..boobies!
Chester: I like small boobies. Small ones are just right. Big ones are baaaaad. Id be afraid that id get suffocated by them if they were too big.

Chester- Dont make me yarf!

Chester:Im a fashion b.tch!

Interviewer: What would be the most important thing you take on tour with you?
Joe: My little penguin. I love to carry my little penguin all around the world with me!
I: a teddy bear?
Joe: No its real. I love it ever so!!

Phoenix: Oh my god, they killed Kenny!
Chester: huh? Lenny?
Joe: Lenny Kravitz?
Phoenix: No, I said Kenny! Southpark ya know?!
Chester: Mr. Hanky Rules!!! POOOOPOOO!!!!!!!!!

We are not nu-metal, but we are.I dont even know what nu-metal is -Joe

Mike:Thats why the name Hybrid Theory, because Brad is a hybrid between a man and a woman!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike: Im not tired. Im not tired. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Brad: *laughing* Im Big Bad Brad Intellectual Wrestler, I wrestle people with my mind, you dont know right now, but Im hitting a man.

Chester: *points at the camera* hes taking you down!
Brad: *points to camera* your going down!!!]

Chester: I dont even get on the internet any more, I dont mess around with computers.
Mike: Im the opposite. Rob and I are both really, really bad.
Chester: Im sending them to Computers Anonymous~!

Chester: Awwwe but I wanted to play at the Lilith Fair! Damn it~!

Chester: When were not on tour, I like to stalk the guys.
Mike: Yeah, he follows us around like a lost puppy dog.
Chester: Woof, woof!

Joe: We dont care about the Mtv awards. I mean, were glad that we got invited this year and we got to perform. But we really didnt care about winning.
Chester: Yeah, theres always next year.
Joe: Well just have the giant whale eat all of the other competitors!
Mike: Oh shit, look out, its Keiko!

107.7 Interviewer: What do you think of all the little teeny boppers out there liking you for your looks and not your music?
Joe: They arent teenyboppers! Theyre Linkie Boppers!

RS: Do you do that pelvic thrust thing to hold it up?
Mike: Thats the only way to hold it up. You dont understand, like people do that and its not like a style thing.
Phoenix: Its a necessity, really.
Mike: Yah, its functional. Like the pelvic thrust is functional adaptation.
Phoenix: its called going shotgun ÃƒÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÃ‚Â¡thats the technical terminology for that rock and roll move *Mike has a fit of laughter in the background*
Mike: WORD.

Ozzfest is cool, but different. Lots of mullets, and tattoos, not so many teeth. -Brad

I am manufactured by Microsoft.-Joe

Mike is dumb-head -Joe

I think Wes is a great guitarist, but not as good as Joe Hahn.
-brad

I heard a rumor, though, that Mr. Hahn is writing from a mental hospital somewhere in Silicon Valley.-Brad

Have any of you guys heard the rumor that Joe tried out for O-Town?-Brad

Mike mounts Brads arphones.Joe

The weirdest thing a fan has given me is Joe Hahn.Brad

You should name your child Michael Kenji-Brad

Oh my Gosh, Joe Hahn is soooooooooooooooooooo hot! -Brad

Mikes toothbrush is soooo sexy.Brad

MR HAHN IS GOD.-Mike

Joe do you remember me from Minnesota? You looked at me when you were playing
-Mike

Ok, lets start answering serious questions, like how Mikes hair got that color.-Brad

One thing I dont know why, it doesnt even matter how hard you fry -Joe
One thing, I dont know hwy, it doesnt even matter how hard you angry beads.-Brad

well be selling Linkin Park kittens next month, though. They have blue hair and wear lots of jewelry -Brad (I want one!)

Mike: Double double.
Brad: Focus Mike
M: Fries and Shake, Hungry
B: Lets start answering some serious questions, for the kids at home
M: Lets talk about lunch.
B: I was referring to the baby sheep. (?)

"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
"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
"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

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We support free music. So go ahead! Download that shit!
-Mike

We are making our way to actually becoming a boy band. Our first video is gonna have us all in a shower wearing white linen suits, crying and pointing at the camera. We definintely want to start wearing matching outfits, choreographing, and lip-syncing our live show.
-Mike

We've been hit and broken things. Brad's guitar hit me in the head before. I actually threw up in my mouth in Des Moines.
-Mike

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

These are my new Brit pop superstar glasses. AAAHHH!
-Mike

I'm the fattest!
-Mike

It was scary in the beginning when we started writing about what felt, but once we realized we weren't the only ones who felt that way, once we saw the audience was coming along with us on that, it freed us up.
-Mike

Thank you, Brad. Brad's 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.
-Mike

I chipped a tooth on a mic once. I hurt my back in the pit. Chester got spit on. We got human fesces 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.
- 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.
-Mike

We wanted someone on the bus to beat up on. Since we hate Pheonix so passionately, he was the only logical choice.
-Mike

You know what's nice is that our posters are right next to the sign for the toliets.
-Mike

I have a toothbrush. My toothbrush is sexy!
-Mike

* When I was little, I was a brat!
-Mike

* A lot has been made of the contrast between me and Chester because we are totally different in a lot of ways. He's crazy for a start off. I'm sane. He used to run around at the age of two singing Foreigner songs. I certainly didn't. He'll show you his butt. I wouldn't inflict that on anybody. We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music. Our guitarist is a huge Britney Spears fan.
-Mike

* When Mike speaks in third person he makes himself crazy.
-Mike

Joe: Mike walked over there, put a CD in, looked at the TV, sat on the table, and broke it in half!
Mike: Oh my god, I'm so bummed!
Joe: Stupid rock star!
Mike: How funny is this? I put my fat ass...I put my fat ass on this table and broke it!

* Brad: What's up? Linkin Park stuck in a ditch tour 2000.
Mike: We were on our way to where? Witchita but we ended up in Ditchita!

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 a porta potty.
Mike: Chester?!
Joe: I remember this one!
Chester: Anyways, Mike went to use the porta potty and we were waiting inside the RV. It was Joes 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!
Mike: That was so not funny.
Joe: Yeah it was, you should of seen the look on your face when you got out of 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!

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)

Chester: Everybody thinks we're a boy band!
Metal-is: Yeah, where does this come from? I never mistook you for a boy band
Chester: We're sooo boy bandish, aren't we?
Mike: Here's the thing: we didn't really hear about that until we left the US. In the US, I think I heard a rumour through my brother that somebody started back East, but for the most part, nobody has even heard that before. Maybe it's the fact we've never been out here before and the lack of communication between fans and ourselves made that happen, but almost every interviewer has asked something about this boy band thing, and it's freaking ridiculous, it's so silly!
Chester: I think it's because of my strikingly good looks.
Mike: I think it's because of your strikingly bad looks.
Chester: I totally disagree. I think i'm the most important person...ever.
Mike: I think chesters full of himself and I think thats really hot!
Chester: Yeah sometimes at night you're full of me too.

Q: Is there any female influence in particular to any of your songs?
Mike: Musically, I'm a big fan of Dido. I also like a ton of female groups from Kitty to Madonna to Sneaker Pimps. Portishead. If you ask Brad, he'll tell you he loves his Britney Spears.
Brad: I love Britney Spears.
Mike: She's a big influence on his guitar playing, especially.
Brad: She drives me crazy.

Q: 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.

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.

Q: Does Joe Hahn have a split personality?
Mike: Absolutely. Joe Hahn keeps inventing new personalities daily. We're not sure how many he has, but at this point he's keeping us on our toes.
Brad: I think my favorite Mr. Hahn personality is the practical joking Mr. Hahn that probably doesn't have a name yet, but he's constantly inventing things in conversations with new fans who don't know us very well. He'll make up things about us that are totally untrue. So beware.

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.

Q: 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!

Mike: It was scary in the beginning, when we started writing about what we felt, but once we realized we weren't the only ones who felt that way, once we saw the audience was coming along with us on that, it freed us up. We wanted to be a little more descriptive, instead of just going 'fuck' all the time. We wanted to go into detail.
Chester: In between the letters of the word fuck -- that's where we go. That's where we dig deep.

Mike: I guess our cover's blown -- we're not big, scary assholes, people should just feel comfortable being normal. You don't have to put up a huge front to be in a band.
Chester: I do. Every day when I get ready, I look in the mirror and say, over and over again, 'Must become action figure. Must become action figure."

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!

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...

Q: Do you guys feel like you've got some pretty big shoes to fill with all the Limp Bizkits and Korns out there in today's music scene?
Brad: Well, I'm not that tall - I actually wear a size 11 [shoe] - and we're actually getting stuff for free now. I just got a pair of Converse, so in terms of filling shoes I don't have any complaints.
Mike: Filling shoes? Wouldn't that mean that those bands are gone? I don't think any of those bands have left the scene. We're all playing music together at this point.
Brad: That was a very adept answer.
Mike: Thank you, Brad. Brad's 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.

Chester: Brad, be a big-ass Gumby for Halloween.
Brad: Actually, that would be good idea, but before Mike had red hair he actually once had green hair and he looked like Gumby, so that would be more appropriate for him.
Mike: I have red hair now that can work around it

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

Mike: You know those guards with the hats? The ones that don't move. Can you touch them? Can you, like, stick your thumb up their butts and they wouldn't move?
Brad: At that point wouldn't they, like, destroy you?

Q: You guys really don't know what your next single's going to be?
Chester: We have no idea.
Mike: Good job, Chester. Good boy.

Shoutweb: Have there been any casualties on tour yet?
Mike: I chipped a tooth on a mic once. I hurt my back in the pit. Chester got spit on. We got human fesces 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.
Shoutweb: Ew... gross!

Brad: I got my first guitar about 11 years ago. I was probably in the sixth grade, [and that was how I got] inspired to grow long hair, 'cause that was the era in which Guns 'N' Roses, Metallica -- those bands were at their height, but my hair doesn't grow long really. It kind of grows outward so I tried to straighten it with a hair dryer and wound up trying to chemically straighten it, and then it died. So now I'm left with the bare minimum.
Mike: Actually, I remember what that looked like, and it wasn't like your typical long-hair look from that time period. He really had a mullet.
Brad: I had a mullet. Yeah, and that's inspired me to overcompensate ever since.

MTV: Let's talk about your success. You've sold over a million records...
Mike: We've sold a million records?
Chester: We did?
MTV: Have you?
Mike: Whoa!

Chester: and at the venue after soundcheck, we did four photo shoots, one after another
Mike: It was like a photo shoot buffet!

Chester: I don't even get on the Internet any more, I don't mess around with computers.
Mike: I'm the opposite. Rob and I are both really, really bad.
Chester: I'm sending him to Computers Anonymous!

Mike: We do want everyone to know that our home on the web is http://www.linkinpark.com/ and if you want to check out the fan websites, they'll be on there. We're going to be redoing our whole site, and that's going to be awesome. We're putting up new graphics and new things to entertain kids who go to the site
Chester: Yeah, we were thinking about adding these games called 'On The Rack', where you can rip people apart, and another one called 'Bash A Boy Band'. It's going to be really cool. It's totally original, it's never been done before!
Metal-is: Be careful - our lawyers are watching
Mike: Yeah, you're gonna be able to grab Brad by his bracelets and rip his arm off! You see, I only got one arm of bracelets, so you can only drag me in one direction, but you could pull him apart!
Chester: And my character, you can flip my necklace inside out and crank the necklace until my head pops!

Metal-is: 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.

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 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 bed. Or I need to install a half of a bus in my room, with bunks, so I can sleep in it.

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!!!!

Brad: Did you know that I hear voices?
Mike: He does and sometimes they speak to us too.

Joe: What do you mean Joe? I'm not Joe, Joe isn't here right now. I'm Remy!
RS: Okaaaay...
Joe: REMY!

Chester: I'm concieded, I really am.
Otep: Yes but in a sexy kinda way.
Chester: Oh, she thinks I'm sexy!
Joe: Uh oh!

Joe: We don't care about the Mtv awards. I mean, we're glad that we got invited to it this year and we got to perform. But we really didn't care about winning.
Chester: Yeah there's always next year.
Joe: We'll just have the giant whale eat all of the other competitors!
Mike: Oh shit, look out, its Keiko!

Q: What do you think about Otep?
Chester:The lead singer (Otep) think I'm a sexy bitch.
Q: Huh?
Joe: Don't mind him. He's just really concieded

Adam: Okay Chester, I just have to ask you this, but what's up with your hair and your pants?
Chester: Dude, don't make fun of me or I'll have my wife kick your ass!
Dr. Drew: Huh?
Chester: I'm serious, she'll whip out some mean karate moves on you. She packs a mean punch!
Joe: Judo chop!
Chester: Raaaar!!!

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!

Ryan: Those Linkin Park boys are crazy.
Chester: Yeah and so are those Orgy guys. They're scary.
Mike: Very scary.

Chester: Joe and the guys keep on threatining me that on my next birthday they're gonna kidnap me and let orgy give me a makeover!
Mike: Awwe stop whining!
Joe: Yeah you know you want to get all dressed up and be glamarific!

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.

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 threatending emails to people.
Phoenix: No you don't.
Joe: Yes I do! Shh, its supposed to be a secret!

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.

Joe: Our fans are intelligent. They know their shit.
Mike: Yeah most of them know more about us than we do!

Mike: My walls are about three 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 ten o'clock every night, we'd hear (he bangs his fist against the wall) and that was our alarm, so we almost ended up naming the band 'Ten PM Stocker', 'cause we recorded on Stocker Street every night and at 10 PM, we had to stop.
Chester: That's a really well thought out answer. Possibly because he's answered that question 500 times in the past week?

Mike: Ryan (Shuck) drank Chester under the table one night and Chester was yarfing everywhere.
Chester: I am the yarf king! I can do anything!

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 louded person wins!
Cane: Oh, okay.
Joe: Penis!
Brad: Phoenix has no penis!
Phoenix: Now that you mention it, my name kinda ryhmes with Penis!
Joe: No it doesn't!

Chester: Shutup when I'm talking to you before I whip my friend out and give you mushroom stamps!
Mike: Yeah you're little friend haha!
Chester: Oh you would know wouldn't you.
Mike: Oh baby, you know it!

Joe: When we're on tour, we like to pick on each other just for fun.
Mike: Yeah we make fun of Chester's big ass.
Chester: I don't have a big ass!
Phoenix: No, you have a ghetto booty!
Joe: Haha ghetto booty! I like that one haha!

Chester: When we're not on tour I like to stalk the guys.
Mike: Yeah he follows us around like a lost puppydog.
Chester: Woof, woof!

Mike: (in a southern drawl) Ya'll come back now ya hear!
Chester: Yeah so we can have some eatins and fixins!
Joe: Pork n beans!

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.

Joe: I want to get a pet frog and name it kermit! Or barky larky!
Chester: Barky larky?
Joe: Yeah got a problem with that?

Chester: I'm a big dork.
Mike: You have a big dork too.
Chester: Yes I know.

Joe: Chester has a bad mouth.
Chester: Fuck, fuck, fuck?
Mike: Bagawk!
Chester: I said fuck, not cluck!

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!

Chester: Scott Weiland is a God!
Mike: Yeah we know, you talk about him 24/7!
Chester: You're just jealous!

Q: So how do you guys like fame?
Mike: We're famous?
Chester: Are you sure?
Phoenix: Subfamous!
Mike: That's craptacular!

Chester: Brad has stinky feet! It smells like a skunk died in both his shoes!
Mike: Yeah Chester likes to smell people's shoes.
Chester: My shoes smell spiffy! Wanna sniff?

Mike: Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
Chester: And sometimes you feel like my nuts.

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?

Q: Speaking of which, the band recently enlisted former bassist Phoenix back into the group after having not played with him since your Xero days, how is the chemistry with him, and who handled the bass duties during the tracking of your latest album?
Mike: We wanted someone in the bus to beat up on. Since we hate Phoenix so passionately, he was the only logical choice.

Q: While performing live, band guitarist Brad is usually wearing large headphones, is there a distinct reason behind this or is he trying to make a fashion statement?
Mike: I don't know. He won't say. It's just a big mystery.

Q: The video for your first single "One Step Closer" is quite eclectic and getting heavy rotation as of late, where did the whole kung fu ghost monk theme come from and is it actually you guys in the make-up?
Mike: Our DJ, MISTA HAHN, wrote the treatment for the video. It's a scary look into his head, isn't it?
Q: Nah, it's completely normal to think of flying kung-fu ghost monks.. I do it all the time.

Q: With the way things are going, the possibilities seem endless for you guys, what should we expect from the band in coming months?
Mike: You shall see soon, my friend.

Q: do you do that pelvic thrust thing to hold it up?
Mike: that's the only way to hold it up. you don't understand, like people do that and it's not like a style thing
Phoenix: it's a neccesity, really
Mike: yah, it's functional. like the pelvic thrust is functional adaptation
Phoenix: it's called "going shotgun", that's the technical terminology for that rock and roll move ( mike has a fit of laughter in the background)
Mike: WORD

Mike: Most of us met a long time ago. Brad and I met in junior high and we met Rob in high school, we met Joe in college
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!

Metal-is: Well, it's great to have a million-selling album - but then you have to follow it up
Mike: We're just starting the first one, so when we get there, we'll worry about that!
Chester: It's only been two months!
Mike: Besides that, we know that we're going to do a 150 hour jam session on the second album, so it won't be able to compete with the first one, because it will be so entirely different, you won't be able to compare it.
Chester: And we're actually going to change the name again to the Ambient Guitar Tapping Group. Brad won't actually be playing, he'll just be tapping the body of the guitar, so the pick-ups pick up the vibration of the strings and it'll be like "MmmmmmmmÃ–."
Mike: For 150 hours! And we'll release it in 150 hour long CDs. And you'll have to buy all of them to get the full piece.
Metal-is: You know, I don't think I should print this, in case Pearl Jam see it
Chester: Waaaaagh! (Narrowly misses taking metal-is' journalist's eye out with his spiked collar as he jumps up and hugs her!)
Mike: Oh, that's no dig on Pearl Jam!
Chester: Oh, you're my favourite person - and I didn't mean to turn you into a shish kebab!

Mike: You wouldn't believe how dangerous it is to drive around with scented candles lit in the bus, but it's necessary.
Chester: We actually got smart and bought sticky velcro and put on either side of the candles, so they wouldn't roll around.

Metal-is: You just mentioned (hed) Planet Earth and you toured the States with them and Papa Roach recently. Was that all young-lads-out-on-the-road type fun?
Road: Yeah, that was a great tour. We actually became really good friends with all those guys.
Mike: Except for that damn Coby! He's real mean to us! He has nothing nice to say, and he always makes fun of me and Chester! And BC from (hed) Planet Earth calls us a naughty word! BC kept calling me and Chester 'vaginas'!
Chester: You know what else I noticed about BC? I kept seeing him kissing other men! (All laugh uproariously.) He even kissed me on the mouth once; I was like, "Dude, back off!"

Joe: I have a nice ass!
Chester: No,you have a bigass.
Mike: A big fatass
Some Person: Awwe, don't make fun of Joe's ass!
Joe: Hehehe you said ass!

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

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

Chester: For some reason we like each other.
Mike: He likes me alot, and I can't stand him.
Chester: Oh, I guess not then.

Mike: I think Chester is full of himself and I think thats really hot!
Chester: Yeah, sometimes at night, your full of me too.

Mike: Yeah, Chester is helping Ryan Shuck (of Orgy) out with his clothing line called Replicant.
Joe: Yeah, Chester is a fashion whore.
Chester: Fashion bitch! Its Fashion bitch, not fashion whore! There's a big difference.
Joe: There is? Oh, I didn't notice.

Phoenix: Chester likes anime porn.
Chester: Yes, and Chester likes other things too
Phoenix: Why are you talking in third person?
Chester: Because Chester feels like it. Now shutup and be a good boy and go clean your room.

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 Joes on my flames
Mike: I'm getting water on my wrists.
Brad: I'm getting wrists on my...I give up

Mike: Rob?
Rob: hi how's it going?
Mike: any thoughts, concerns?
Rob: no, just chillin with Big Ben

Joe: Mike walked over there, put a cd in, looked at the t.v, sat on the table, and broke it in half!
Mike: OMG im so bummed
Joe: stupid rock star!
Mike: How funny is this? I put my fatass on this table and broke it!

Brad: What's up, Linkin Park stuck in a ditch tour 2000.
Mike: We were on our way to where? Witchita but we ended up in Ditchita!

Mike: I met chester in a strip club.
Chester: Yeah we were both trying out for a job there.
Mike: Yeah but, my butt wasn't big enough......

Mike: mike is so hot....oops, i mean joe.
Mike: A lot has been made of the contrast between me and Chester because we are totally different in a lot of ways. He's crazy for a start off. I'm sane. He used to run around at the age of two singing Foreigner songs. I certainly didn't. He'll show you his butt. I wouldn't inflict that on anybody. We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music. Our guitarist is a huge Britney Spears fan.

Q: 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.

Q: If forced at gun point by a pack of militant mutant giraffes, would you don a tutu and sing sea shanty's on live TV?
Mike: Sure. What color tutu? Would you sing with me?

Q: 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.
Q: What is this I heard about him getting naked?
Mike: Chester? He just likes to show his butt. He wouldn't have the tights that most wrestlers have. He would have a G-string.

Q: 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?
Mike: 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.

Mike: I don't want to have a religious talk with them and besides I don't want to give some religious advice to some kid. Dude, I'm only 23. Go ask your parents. And if you don't like the answer they give you then go to a religious establishment that gives you the answers you're most interested in.

Q: Mike, you did time in art school, didn't you?
Mike: I did time at art school, and it was rough. I went to the Art Center in Pasadena. A school like that is really rough.

Mike: Shutup porta potty boy!

Mike: When I was little I was a brat.

Mike: If you were sitting in your living room watching tv, having a poptart and a soda, and some drunkin idiot walked into your home wanting to use your bathroom. YOU'D FRIGGIN' CALL THE COPS!

Mike: I have a toothbrush... my toothbrush is sexy

Mike: Im the fattest!

Mike: (in london) You know what's nice is that our posters are right next to the sign for the toilets

Q: If you were stuck on a desert island and could only bring a CD player, a guitar, a lifetime supply of moonpies or Jennifer Lopez, which one would you bring and why?
Brad: That's a joke. I'd bring Jennifer Lopez in a second.
Mike: I can bring the moonpies. We'll have both.
Brad: Instead of playing guitar, I would construct a new instrument out of bamboo and coconuts and serenade Jennifer.
Mike: And we'd write a song called "Little Buddy" just like Gilligan's Island.

Joe: Mike! Give me froggy back!!
Mike: Magic word?
Joe: No, I'm not gonna say it!
Mike: Say it, or froggy goes down the hole.
(Joe's eyes widened.)
Joe: Mike your so hot, your one sexy bitch!
Mike laughs and throws froggy down the hole anyway. Joe screams.
Joe: NOOO!! (Slow motion)
Joe crys and hits Mike.
Joe: I'm telling Chester on you!! YOU KILLED FROGGY!!

Rob: Hey, Joe, what are ya listening to?
Joe: Uh, nothing...
Brad: He's listening to Chester's Madonna CD's.
Joe: No I'm not!!!
Chester: What?! I never said you could listen to them!!
Joe: I'm not!!
Chester: I'm gonna kill you, you hacker!!! Joe: Leave me alone!!! (hides his face in his arms)
Mike: It's okay, Joe... Chester's not gonna hurt you...
Chester: Yeah, I'm not gonna hurt you.... I'm just gonna...
Joe: NO!!!! NOT THE FROGGY!!!
Rob: Chester....
Chester: Oh, ok.... geez, I was just joking....
Joe: (sniffs)no you weren't.... you were gonna... you were gonna..
Brad: Here, do you want Mr. Froggy???
Phoenix: Yeah, Mr. Froggy won't hurt you...
Joe: (takes the stuffed animal) ok, thanks....

Joe: This is Joe. Mike likes to break glass tables.
Mike: This is Mike. Joe likes to break wind.
Mike: This is Mike. I like to break the wind.

Interviewer: When you've been touring with Deftones, have you received a good response from the audiences?
Mike: Aside from the tomatoes?
Joe: They say tom-ah-toes here.

Mike: If ripping my shirt in half means it's good! Is that a good response? Or is that, "I don't like you, I"m going to ruin your clothes?"

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