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

          "You Know if you still looking at me like that, say bye bye to mr lollypop"-Mike

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

             "We were on our way to where? Witchita but we ended up in ditchita." ~Mike

"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves." - Mike

  "The best way to save a dime at a fast food run through is to have fans who work at the place that's serving the food so they can hook you up." - Mike

Mike: "I chipped a tooth on a mic once. I hurt my back in the pit. Chester got spit on. We got human faeces 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 by broken things. Brads guitar has hit me in the head before. I actually threw up in my mouth in Des Moines."

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 early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music. Our guitarist is a huge Britney Spears fan!"

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

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-synching our live shows."

If forced by a gun point by a pack of militant mutant giraffes, would you put on a tutu and sing "Sea Shanty's" live on TV?
Mike: "Sure. What colour tutu? Would you sing with me?"

Mike: "Thank you, Brad. Brad is 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: "We are renaming the band to Blinkin'Sync- 182."

"The songwriting will still be tight, but you'll find a lot more complex writing going on. And Joe plans to say 'f**k' all over it" - Mike, on their 2nd album

Mike's attempt at an English accent:
Mike: "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 ova 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" (LAUGHTER!!!)

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."

Interviewer: 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.

"It seems like a lot of more mainstream type kids are getting into what we are doing. When i was in high school, if certain people started liking my bands, I felt like I couldn't like that band anymore; it was like, the idiots were ruining it for me. I don't want to alienate our real fans, you know? I don't want the kids who were with us from the early days to feel like there isn't room for them anymore." - Mike Shinoda

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: 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.

Mike- We can't have any new songs.............our record label won't pay people to write us new songs until we get the dance moves to our Clairol commercial right.

Mike: Some kid told someone else they can get banned for calling us assholes.
Anna: Mike, you're an asshole.

 "We're sooo boy bandish, aren't we?" - Chester
"Here's the thing: we didn't really hear about that until we left the US. In the US, I think I heard a rumor 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!" - Mike
"I think it's because of my strikingly good looks." - Chester
"I think it's because of your strikingly bad looks." - Mike
"I totally disagree. I think I'm the most important person...ever." - Chester
"I think Chester's full of himself and I think that's really hot!" - Mike
"Yeah sometimes at night you're full of me too." - Chester

Which of your songs do you consider the hardest to play?
Chester: ""The Song Remains the Same" by Led Zepplin."
Mike: "our songs Chester"
Chester: "Oh...Sympathy by Beethoven."
Mike: "Answer one question seriously at some point."
Chester: "Me?"
Mike: "Its not just you, we're all doing it."
Chester: "OK I'll be completely serious."
Mike: "No, don't be completely serious."
Chester: "For some reason we like each other."
Mike: "He likes me a lot, and I can't stand him."
Chester: "Oh, I guess not then."

Mike: "Brad, is it true your mom's a hamster?"

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

Which of your songs do you consider the hardest to play?
Chester: ""The Song Remains the Same" by Led Zepplin."
Mike: "our songs Chester"
Chester: "Oh...Sympathy by Beethoven."
Mike: "Answer one question seriously at some point."
Chester: "Me?"
Mike: "Its not just you, we're all doing it."
Chester: "OK I'll be completely serious."
Mike: "No, don't be completely serious."
Chester: "For some reason we like each other."
Mike: "He likes me a lot, and I can't stand him."
Chester: "Oh, I guess not then."

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 'f**k' all the time. We wanted to go into detail."
Chester: "In between the letters of the word f**k -- 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: "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..."

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?"

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

Chaz: "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!"
Chaz: "Oh you would know wouldn't you?"
Mike: "Oh baby, you know it!"

Chaz: "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."
Chaz: "I'm sending him to Computers Anonymous!"

Mike: "We don't know what this video (osc) is about. Joe, our DJ, is the only one who knows what it's about, and he won't tell us."
Chaz: "He's an alien anyway."

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!"

Mike: "Interview with The Chemist"
The Chemist (which is also known as Chaz): "I am the prankster!"
Mike: "What night is tonight, Chemist?"
The Chemist: "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! -laughs evilly- 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 "laboratory"... ...we... took place... in something very... devious"

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"
Chaz: "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!"

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?"

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