Group



Interviewer: What do you listen to on tour?

Rob: Phil Collins, definitely. Texas.

Brad: Westlife

Joe: The entire west side story soundtrack.

Brad: TV rock, like the Monkees.

Joe: And the Brady Bunch.



Mike (attempting english accent): "Listen 'eres wat's goin on, wat we've got is da real drums ....'bang bang bang' got dem, and we got da fake drums ... 'bang bang bang'... that dont make any noise and he's (points) sayin why you av dis sutupid fing, cuz they make a sound on the sampla ever ere. I'm speekin in yer language......I'm just tryin to relate .... its okay right?...."

Phoenix: "Hey Mike, they said you sound South African"



Mike:"A good night is when you sing so hard you throw up!!!! "

Brad: "...and a bad night is when all your equipment brakes at the same time, and the crew doesn't know what to do!"



Chester: "Yeah, We really like each other"

Mike: "Well he likes me, but I can't stand him"

Chester: "*In teary voice* Well, I guess not then!"



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."



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."



Joe: "Mike is sponsored by Clairol."

Brad: "Mike is also sponsored by Joe."



Mike: "Brad is a pop diva."

Brad: "Mike is a pop diva."



Mike: "Brad's 1st guitar was a piece of crap..."

Brad: "My first guitar was a Fender Squire Bullet and practiced about two hours a day for the first few years. Speak for yourself, Mike, I loved that damn guitar."



Joe: "I have a nice ass!"

Chester: "No, you have a big ass."

Mike: "A big fatass."

Someone: "Aww, don't make fun of Joe's ass!"

Joe: "Hehehe, you said ass!"



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! Poooopoooo!"



Chester: "I'm a big dork."

Mike: "You have a big dork too."

Chester: "Yes, I know."



Joe: "We are not nu-metal, but we are...I don't even know what nu-metal is. Nu-crap. Nu-tard. Nu-vomit."

Mike: "Nu-Metal is a weird thing...I don't even think we're metal."

Brad: "I want to labeled as Gnu-Metal."

Joe: "I like Nu-Ska."

Mike: "We need more ska on the next album. Maybe we'll just do ska from now on................Skankin Park. Brad used to love ska in high school"



Mike: "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't."

Chester: "And sometimes you feel like my nuts!"



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."



Chester: "When i retire from music, I actually plan to become a profesional wrestler, Im going to be the smallest profesional wrestler in history and my manager is Mr. Hahn. We're called the Sugar Brothers. My profesional move which takes down everybody is I just run around in circles until that you know, the competition falls over from exhaustion and then Joe comes in and pins them because I'm too small and I run. See? And thats how I'm gonna take the championship that way. SUGAR BROTHERS!!....sorry..."

Brad: "Um yeah...I'm Big Bad Brad the intellectual wrestler, I wrestle people with my mind. Like you dont even know right now but I'm pinning you to the ground."

Chester: "Yeah, hes taking you down."

Brad: "You're goin down."



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."



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 'Mmmmmmmm?'."

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!" (Hugs Interviewer, Nearly Pokes Out Her Eye With Spiked Collar)

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 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 punching Mike.) 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 f*cking art!"

Mike: "Art? Whatever!"



Interviewer: "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: "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.'"



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: "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!"

Mike: "Yeah, you're gonna be able to grab Brad by his bracelets and rip his arm off! You see, I only have 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!"



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 wind."



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."



Chester: "I'm the most important person...ever."

Mike: "I think Chester's full of himself, and I think that's really hot."

Chester: "Sometimes at night you're full of me too."



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 f*ckin' 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."



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!"



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 loudest person wins!"

Cane: "Oh, okay."

Joe: "Penis!"

Brad: "Phoenix has no Penis!"

Phoenix: "Now that you mention it, my name kinda rhymes with "Penis"."

Joe: "No it doesn't!"



Chester: "Shut up when I'm talking to you before I whip out my friend and give you mushroom stamps!"

Mike: "Yeah, your little friend! Haha!"

Chester: "Oh you would know wouldn't you?"

Mike: "Oh baby,you know it!"



Joe: "What the hell is it with you and Jiggly Puffs?"

Chester: "What the hell is it with you and frogs?"

Joe: "Don't disrespect the almighty froggy!"

Chester: "Oooooh I'm scared! Should I run?"

Joe: "Yes very, very fast."



Joe: "Are you saying I'm fat?"

Mike: "Yes. I mean no! I mean, hmmm...."



Joe: "I do NOT start forest fires!"

Brad: "Huh? What are you talking about?"



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!"



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 F*CKING 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."



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: "We kind of just like ninjas and dark tunnels and fire."

Mike: "And guys with big hair that look like werewolves."

Chester: "Grr! Arr!"



Interviewer: "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."



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 sh*t, look out, its Keiko!"



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!"

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?"



Joe: "Chester has a bad mouth."

Chester: "F*ck, f*ck, f*ck?"

Mike: "Bagawk!"

Chester: "I said f*ck, not cluck!"



Brad: "I want to know if Joe Hahn sleeps in the nude?"

Mike: "Yes he does" *winks*



Interviewer: "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!"

Interviewer: "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: "We like to hold hands and comb each other's hair in our spare time."

Chester: "Everybody thinks we're a boy band!"

Interviewer: "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."



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!"



Mike: "Chester and I met at a male strip club."

Chester: "We were both trying to get jobs there as dancers."

Mike: "And it just didn't work out....because my butt wasn't big enough."

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: "It's from eating too many donuts."



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: "Aww, stop whining!"

Joe: "Yeah you know you want to get all dressed up and be glamarific!"

Mike: "I like the green apple."

Joe:" Hehe green froggie apple!"

Chester: "Crushed melon is good!"

Rob: "Hehehe, you said melon!"

Mike: "Melon...Melons...Bozoms!"



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 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!"

Mike: "That was so not funny."

Joe: "Yeah it was, you should have 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!"



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: "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, it's supposed to be a secret!"

Chester: "Oh man...I think I disconnected or something."

Interviewer: "What type of machine are you using?"

Chester: "It's called a computer."



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."



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?"



Interviewer: "Who has the worst habits in the band?"

Chester: "I would say that I'm probably the most annoying. There's a reason for that."

Mike: "NO!"

Brad: "C'mon Chester!"

Chester: "I'm always touching them in their privates.

Brad: "Yeah, Chester the Molester!"



Joe: "I have an ass, it's 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!"



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?"



Mike: "We're famous?"

Chester: "Are you sure?"

Phoenix: "Sub-famous!"

Mike: "That's craptacular!"



Mike: *sniffs* "Ahhh! Who layed the egg?" *looks at chester*

Chester: *smiles* "Quack, quack!"



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 fatass on this table and broke it!"



Joe: "Knowledge is more important to the mind....quite the contrary... so therefore, we tend to think a lot."

Mike: "What?"

Brad: "Showoff..."



Joe: "You must understand the concept of making an animated video. Or better yet, a music video..." *looks at Phoenix*

Phoenix: "Huh? Oh, uh, yeah!" *pretends to take notes*



Joe: "Hey, Mike, can I tell you something? I swear, it's not gonna be..."

Mike: "Shut up, Joe."



Mike: "Hey, Joe!"

Joe: "What?"

Mike: "Go away!"



Joe: "I like, uh, kinda borrowed a few bucks from you, uh, Rob."

Rob: "A few bucks? That's okay... how much did you take?"

Joe: "Oh, just about $250 dollars or so..."

Rob: "What!?"

Joe: "Hey, you said it was alright...."

Rob: "When are you gonna pay me back?!"

Joe: "Hehe, when I FEEL like it...."



Chester: "Thank you all for coming out to help fight breast cancer. I know I'm a big fan of boobies myself!"

Mike: "Hear, hear!"

Chester: "So, I think it's really great that so many people are coming out to help save as many boobies as we can."

Mike *to the crowd*: "Can I ask you guys something? How hard is it to start a pit in the snow?"



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."



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."



Joe: "Yea I'm a whore. Hey, they said my name!"

Chester: "No they didn't."

Joe: "Huh? They just did!"

Mike: "Ugh, Joe, just give it up!"



Phoenix: "Chester likes to grab his package like Michael Jackson."

Mike: "I didn't know Chester had a package."

Joe: "Yeah, it's somewhere down there."



Mike: "Getting on stage is the best part of the day."

Brad: "And showering."

Mike: "With Joe."



Joe: "Mike, you guys had a great year last year, what are you going to do this year?"

Mike: "We're going to fail and break up and Joe's going to sell out and start doing dolls and tampon ads."



Chester: "I'm sick of people screaming. The only one who should be screaming is me!"

Brad *screaming*: "Yeah! And we're sick of that!"



Interviewer: "Do you do that little 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 a style thing."

Phoenix: "It's a neccessity, really."

Mike: "Yeah, 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: "Word."



Mike: "Rob?"

Rob: "Hi, how's it going?"

Mike: "Any thoughts, concerns?"

Rob: "Nope, just chillin' with Big Ben"



Mike: "Hey Joe. What have you got there? Wait, hold it up."

Joe: "I have wet toilet paper. Right now we're in London. We're opening up the window and throwing this at pedestrians. Mike, move the camera in."

Mike: "Throw it far. "

Victim: "Piss off!"

Mike: "Where did it land Joe? It landed on his lap?"

Joe: "It landed on his penis."

Mike: "On his penis!"



Phoenix *flexes muscles*: "Does that fit on there? Is it big enough for that? I dont think it is. I think you need a bigger lens."

Joe: "I think I need a smaller lens."

Phoenix: "Bigger lens."



Brad: "I met Chester at the Brixton show in the UK."

Mike: "Chester signed my boob."

Joe: "Mine too!"

Brad: "I gave him a bracelet."



Mike: "Double double."

Brad: "Focus, Mike."

Mike: "Fries and shake, hungry."

Brad: "Let's start answering some serious questions, for the kids at home."

Mike: "Let's talk about lunch."

Brad: "I was referring to the baby sheep."

Joe: "One thing, I don't know why, it doesn't even matter how hard you fry."

Brad: "One thing, I don't know why, it doesn't even matter how hard you agry beads."



Mike: "Brad, talk about your personal life."

Brad: "Mike, live about your personal talk."



Brad: "Mike is the "underground"."

Mike: "What's the underground?"

Brad: "Joe is slightly above ground."

Joe: "I am the celestial overground."

Brad: "As for me, I'm grounded."



Mike: "Hey, Joe, I like your hair."

Joe: "I know you do."



Brad: "Did you know that I hear voices?"

Mike: "He does, and sometimes they speak to us too."



Joe: "Hey, wanna come with me over to McDonald's for a quick snack?

Mike: "What? We just ate at Pizza Hut!"

Joe: "And your point is?"

Mike: "Ugh, never mind, forget you."



Rob: "This is the beautiful room service "Chicken Fricassee."

Mike: "What does it smell like Rob?"

Rob: "Ahh!"

Brad: "I can't believe you got that close to it dude."

Rob: "It's bad."

Mike: "Dude, put the cover back on it. It smells like b-o!"



Brad: "Did you bring your water wings?"

Phoenix: "I have one that goes around my stomach. It's got a little duck head on it."



Brad: "Okay, if we asked the fans right now, who do you think will say is the best LP member?"

Mike: "I don't know, it doesn't really matter. They won't answer that question."

Joe: "Yeah, besides, they would all agree on ME!"

Chester: "Huh? Choose you over me? You gotta be kidding me."



Mike: "Hehe, I know where Joe lives!"

Brad: "Where, under the bridge?"

Chester: "Hey, that's what I was gonna say!"



Joe: "Man, we have the worst scandals."

Brad: "No, you have the worst scandals."



Mike: "Y'all come back now, you hear?"

Chester: "Yeah, so we can have some "eatin's and fixin's"!"

Joe: "Pork 'n' beans!"



Mike: "Interview with the "Chemist"."

Chester: "I am the prankster!"

Mike: "What night is tonight, Chemist?"

Chester: "The Chemist says that tonight is the last night of the European tour with Taproot and Deftones, and is also the night that the Chemist and his associates derived a meticulous plan to destroy the Deftones! Muahahaha! The idea was initially brought up by my associate "Spike Minoda" who was undercover from the KGB. His idea was to destroy "The Deftones" by replacing their water with vodka! Once I apprehended the virgin waters I therefore took them to the "labratory". We took place in something very devious!"



Interviewer: "Brad, be a big-ass Gumby for Halloween."

Brad: "Actually, that would be a good idea, but before Mike had red hair he actually once had green hair and he looked like Gumby, so that would be more appropraite for him."

Mike: "I have red hair now that can work around it."



Interviewer: "What's the one thing you miss the most while you're on tour?"

Brad: "My own toilet."

Chester: Ah, but I wanted to play at Lilith Fair! Damnit!

Mike: "Shutup porta potty boy!"



Rob



"I remember getting really really nervous, in high school like playing for all my friends and stuff like we would play at these parties or something like that and i remember getting WAY more nervous

playing those then playing like ozzfest shows in front of of 25 to 30 thousand people."



"Down here is where we keep the bay key, and this is how we get into the lower part of the bus where our luggage is and once and a while the bay key disapears like this, it looks like this *removes it* and you come down to get your luggage and there's no bay key. And when THAT happens you usually have to go to Mike Shinoda and ask him for the key because its usually in HIS pants or in his pocket or something like that."



" We have another refridgerator with the same stuff in there too,

well actually we got some soda in here and stuff and uh some 'smelly deli trays' and everyone's afraid to touch it."



"Here's our bathroom, today it smells rather fresh. That's not always the case."



"NO NUMBER TWO'S ALLOWED IN THE BATHROOM, only number one that's just a bus rule that goes back for many, many years. It's been passed on from generation to generation."



"Back here, we got the phoenix. This is where we keep the phoenix."



Phoenix



Marilyn Manson is one strange bird. I wonder how he stays so skinny."



"We like to dress up in cat suits and re-enact the broadway show 'Cats'."



"My favourite colour is clear."



"Regardless of what happens onstage, fans can rest assured that the members of Linkin Park will be playing with fungus-free feet, thanks to a rider in their contract that requires fresh socks be delivered backstage before every performance. They can't be tube, only crew socks. It's very practical, but for some reason, we rarely get them. Promoters just think it's a big joke."



Interviewer: "You recently went double platinum, you sold over two million records, what do you have to say?"

Phoenix: "I know my mom bought a couple of copies, but not two million."



"Are you tight on me? Are you zoomed?...Fuzzy. I'm watching it in the screen. *Camera shifts down to his crotch* IM UP HERE! HELLO? UP HERE!"



"*holding tip jar* It's getting fatter, the kitty is getting fatter!"



Chester



"There's this 13-year-old kid from Pittsburgh. He comes up to us and goes, 'I'm stalking you, dude, and when you reach the peak of your success, I'm going to kill you.' Then, during the show, he's down in the front telling Mike that he wants to 'rape his soul!' I think that's cool, but he probably needs to chill out a bit."



"I've signed enough boobies in my life to be done with boobies... to sign, I mean."



"But, after all that, here I am; yes, I'm on the internet after all of this time. I'm hip, I'm with it."



"The best thing I'd ever done to my parents was learning to use the toilet."



"How the fuck are all of you fucking people doing tonight? You're all so fucking beautiful!"



"I miss the Ramones."



"Okay, so after you basically run away you find yourself alone... by yourself and then... in the end you're trying to find a place for your head and you've forgotten."



"I like to have a clean house, but I'm not a neat freak."



"Peace! Peace, love, and anarchy motherfuckers!"



"I love to hear the crowd sing along. It gives me the biggest hardon. Of course, that means I have an erection for a whole hour every night. [to Phoenix] I hit your bass with my dick last night. I still got the bruise."



Q: "What do you guys do for fun?"

A: "We make fun of Mike's head."



"We're just happy to be playing. Plus, there's only room for one asshole in the band, and that's me!"



"You live, you die... and somewhere in between you'll have children."



"There are wacky girls all over the place that try doing weird things, but we don't pay attention to them. We just kind of do our thing and hang out with the fans that are really important to us."



"That's a really well thought out answer. Possibly because he's answered that question 500 times in the past week."



"I don't want to see anymore girls who look like they've had the shit kicked out of them. What's happened to chivlary? You see someone fall down, you pick them up!"



"Shut up or I'll sit on your head!"



"I was born on the cusp of Ares, a fire sign... ooooh!"



"Oh, my God. I hate spiders. Squish! Kill! Die! Eww!"



"There's nothing like screaming 'shut up' for, like, 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 excrutiating thing. I felt like my head was going to explode like a pimple. It was kind of gross."



"Down here we've got some pictures of the band. One of the first photo shoots. We were all trying to look really cool and unfortunately we didn't succeed in that. We'll move into the bar area. And this is where we have most of our fun, because it's got all the booze."



"I have Sheryl Crow right next to Outkast, in between Alice In Chains. Let's put some sense into that one."



"Here we go to the bathroom. This is where I scratch my balls in the morning and this is where we get naked and try to cleanse ourselves. We like to hav ea nice little theraputic moment in our place. Lots of candles. And, we have a beday, but we've never used it because I'm afraid of it."



Q: "What's your plans for Valentine's day?"

A: "Masturbation."



"It's kind of hard to manufacture a band that's known each other their whole lives."



Q: "First question is, how did you get the name Linkin Park?"

A: "Are you kidding me?" (laughs) "Shove it up your ass"



*walks into dressing room wearing practically nothing* "You know what? People are so polite about taking my stuff that I gave it to them"



"I'm braver than him, I take it like a man."



"We only do it bling-bling style."



"Everyone died at 4:20 man!"



Brad



Q: When will Linkin Park be in Chicago?

A: Lincoln Park has always been in Chicago.



Q: I thought he(Joe) was teaming up with Britney spears?

A: No, I was the one who wanted to team up with Britney.



"I feel like I'm being hit by a techno tidal wave, kinda like the one from "Deep Impact," but instead of water, it's text."



"Joe's hair is actually implants."



"Ok, so let's start addressing some serious issues, like oil drilling in the Gulf. Or Mike's hair. Or Joe's physique."



"The next video will be Joe half-naked in the bath tub. Kinda like that old Maxwell video."



"We're going to be coming out with Linkin Park toilet paper."



"Oh, I have an important anouncement to make: Phoenix, a.k.a. our bass player, has officially adopted a new alias. From now on, he demands to be called....."Powerful"."



"I like a new band called Mr. Hahn and the Mike Shinoda Six."



"Poop."



"I've resorted to scatalogical humor."



"Mike, can you bring me a sandwich?"



"I want to thank the members of the academy....my band, Britney,..."



"I would love Britney posters, send them to the address on the back of the CD."



"We'll be selling Linkin Park kittens next month, though. They have blue hair and wear lots of jewelry."



"I'm allergic to spam."



Shoutweb: "Are you still wearing headphones on stage?"

Brad: "Yeah."

Shoutweb: "Explain that to me."

Brad: "I'll sell you that story for ten grand. That's the going price."

Shoutweb: "I will take "headphones" for two thousand please!"

Brad: "Actually, if I told you then I'd have to kill you."

Shoutweb: "Oh, no!"

Brad: "I will say that it has something to do with the matrix. Not the movie, the actual matrix and being connected with it. Mr. Hahn has been rubbing off on me. I'm starting to integrate sci-fi humor into my schtick. It probably isn't too popular with a mass audience."



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



"I put myself in the group of music called Linkin Park."



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



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



"I'll take bracelets from anyone, as long as its quality shit."



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



"You should name your child Michael Kenji."



"Oh my gosh, Joe Hahn is soooooo hot!"



"Mike's toothbrush is soooo sexy."



"The way we went to create this record - 'Hybrid Theory' - was I listened to Craig David's record. I listened to it over and over again, really trying to get into what is garage. I just started, not just feeling garage, but really being garage."



"Always turn your cellphone off before an interview."



"Jones soda rules!"



"Rather than just stealing your shit they ask if they can steal it. Chester came back into the dressing room without his shoes or clothes or basically anything of him. He was like 'You know what? People are so polite about taking my stuff that I gave it to them'."



"I probably would have more likely believed that the record would have topped the $4.99 for sale bin at your local record store. So, the fact that it's at the top of anything is cool, but for it to be the best selling album of the year is just ridiculous. I can only say it's because of the extreme dedication and exuberance of our fan base that is really... If you notice that the record has stayed really consistently on the charts, it's because I really think it's because it's a word of mouth record."



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



"Do you ever get the feeling other people are jealous of you?"



"Lets do it with farts..."



Mike



"One time, chester jumped on a porta-toilet during a show and fell through the roof he did the whole show dangling over the toilet."



Q: why does brad wear ear phones when he plays guitar?

A: cause his ears are really big. he looks like the guy on the cover of mad magazine



"eminem is funny. eminem is also a homophobic jerk."



"We are renaming the band to Blink-Nsync 182."



"Out record label won't pay people to write us new songs until we get the dance moves to our Clairol commercial right."



"Brad, is it true that your mom is a hamster?"



"When I was little I was a brat."



"If you were sitting in your living room watching T.V., having a poptart and a soda, and some drunken idiot walked into your home wanting to use your bathroomyou'd frigging call the cops!"



"Mr. Hahn is god."



"Joe, do you remember me from Minnesota? You looked at me when you were playing."



"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: "If you were invisible for a day, what would you do?"

A: "Look at naked girls, of course."



"I'm not tired... I'm not tired... I'm... zzzzzzzzzz..."



"Look how fat my head is. It's even fatter than normal. It's too big!"



[camera on Snug-Fit Condoms] "Sucks to be the guy who has to wear one of these, huh"?



"Mike is so hot... Oops, I mean Joe."



"Christina Aguilera looks like a poodle in her new video."



"Brad Delson only wears Urban Decay nail polish, available at Hot Topic."



Joe



"Brad is a stomach model for men's fitness."



"It's as funny as a corny sloth climbing through a manhole."



"The main thing you'll grasp out of the video is that the robots are just beating the shit out of each other."



"I like champagne."



"Brad Delson Theory."



"Brad is the best turn-tablist ever."



"Go buy Mike presents. He loves presents."



"Request 'Cure For The Itch' at your local stations."



"Ozzy scared me when I met him at first."



"My butt hurts. I've been sitting in this damn chair signing stuff for a half an hour and they won't let me get up and walk around. Big old bodyguards say, 'ooga, booga.'"



"'The Hobbit' rules."



"I'm manufactured by Microsoft."



"Mike is a dumb-head."



"'Remy' is a lie. Some idiot made that up."



"Mike mounts Brad's headphones."



"I wasn't a geek, but I was into art. I was one of the guys who the other kids were like, 'Oh, you draw. Could you draw a picture of me?' They'd ask me dumb questions, like, 'Where'd you learn to draw?'"



Q: "What's your philosophy?"

A: "Take a bath at least once a day. Don't be dirty."



"They aren't teenieboppers! They're linkieboppers!"



"I lost my house, can I have your's?"



"Mr. Hahn has a split personality named 'Remy.' Remy is a dangerous man. He keeps the rest of us on our toes."



"In a year from now we probably won't be around, so we'll see you on 'Behind The Music.'"



"Mike is so cute. I want to have his kids."



"We're going to put the glass under the couch and then put the table under the bed so they hopefully don't find it and charge us for it."



"I'm warm, huggable, and lovable!"



"Linkin Park chat! Word up! Everyone gets in except for me

and when I do get in, they don't believe that its me."


Source: lpassociation.com