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

                                         "We're not very photogenic!" – Brad

                             "I want to know if Joe Hahn sleeps in the nude?" - Brad
                                        "Yes, he does (wink wink)" - Mike

Mike: "That's craptacular!" 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 f**king art!
Mike: Art? Whatever!
Interviewer: 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 disgusting, because I do that with my baggage too. All my bags specifically fit in a certain way really well I can't have disorganized bags! And when I go grocery shopping, I'm the same way; boxed items like detergents have to be separated from the food, and then all cans go together, all meats go together, and therefore it's easier to unload when you get home.
Interviewer: But surely it's only common sense to separate your detergents from your fresh food, so they don't get tainted with a soapy taste?
Chester: Yes, but you see people tossing whatever they grab first into the bag. Not with me. It has to be done a specific way every time.
Mike: This is like the most involved answer about produce that I have ever heard in my life!

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

“My nickname for Joe is 'I'm tired of talking to you.'” – Brad

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

Brad: "I met Chester at the Brixton show in the U.K."
Mike: "Chester signed my boob."
Joe: "Me too."
Brad: "I gave him a bracelet."

Mike: "Rob"
Rob: "Hi, hows it going?"
Mike: "Any thought, concerns?"
Rob: "No, just chilling with Big Ben."

"A good night is when you sing so hard you throw up!!!!” - Mike
"...and a bad night is when all your equipment brakes at the same time, and the crew don't know what to do!"- Brad.

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: 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!"

Q: Do you guys feel like you've got some pretty big shoes to fill with all the Limp Bizkit's and Korn's out there in today's music scene?
Brad: "Well, I'm not that tall - I actually wear a size 11 - 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."

London Guard interview:

Mike: You know those guards with the hats? The ones that don't move.
Interviewer: The guards at Buckingham Palace?
Mike: Yeah. Can you touch them?
Interviewer: I think so.
Mike: Can you, like, stick your thumb in their butts and they won't move?
Brad: At what point would they like, destroy you?
Interviewer: Why do you ask?
Joe: In America we have an ice cream called a Big Stick and we want to stick one of those up their asses.
Interviewer: Can I film it?

Interviewer: So how important has the Internet been in your development.
Mike: Well, www.linkinparkporn.com has been a very important part of our lives....

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."

Mike: "Hehe, I know where Joe lives!!"
Brad: "Where, under the bridge??"
Chester: "Hey, that's what I was gonna say!!!"

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?
Rob: "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'!"
Chaz: "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!"

Chaz: "Have you ever played the Penis Game?"
Cane: "WHAT?!"
Chaz: "The Penis Game!"
Cane: "What the hell is that?!"
Chaz: "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?"
Chaz: "Its where I slap you with my penis!"

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

Brad: "Jones soda rules!"
Mike: "I like the green apple."
Joe: "Hehe green froggie apple!"
Chaz: "Crushed mellon is good!"
Rob: "Hehehe you said mellon!"
Mike: "Mellon...Mellons...Bozoooooms!"

Rob: "I live on a bus!"
Mike: "Yeah, I live on a bus, that's my home."
Chaz: "Not only that, but I can't sleep anywhere, but the f**kin' 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."

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."
Chaz: "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!
Chaz: And my character, you can flip my necklace inside out and crank the necklace until my head pops!"

 

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!"

"Mike is a genius, Trent Reznor-talented." - Brad

"Unfortunately, that park (Lincoln Park, the park that Chester got his idea to rename the band to Linkin Park) has been renamed the Christine Emerson Reed Park, so we're actually thinking about changing our name to Christine Emerson Reed Park and making Linkin Park the name of the second record, just to keep the consistency." – Brad

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

Brad: "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 on him. He was like 'you know what, people are so polite about taking my stuff that I gave it to them'."

Brad: *doing devil horns* \m/ "I learned this at the Ozzfest, I don't know what it means though.

Brad: You know what Andre? How many times must we have this conversation? I can't use a green pic with a green screen.

Cameraman: where you going Brad?
Brad: Red Light District!

RT: What are you going to do in London? A few drinkypoos,
Mike: We actually got a present from our record company out here, they greeted us with alcohol. Cases of lager.
Brad: Which is great because some of us don't really drink so its nice, but like...
RT: Well, this is London.
Brad: Well I'm not going to drink it...
Mike: You'd better drink it, or I'm going to force it down your throat.
Brad: ...Its like, great, vodka. Thanks.
Mike: Which just means that there's more for Joe.
Joe: (who has so far been sitting in an enigmatic silence, pipes up suddenly) "Yeah. I'm a whore."

Brad: There's like this whole rock star thing where you're supposed to get drunk and party and all that, but if you think about it, all the great bands of the last few decades were destroyed by drugs and alcohol and for all the talk about the record industry being more responsible with bands who have problems, they actually want you to live up to this antiquated mystique about what a rock star should be.
Interviewer: The Iggy Pop syndrome?
Brad: They almost encourage it, and I'm like, "that's not what I'm about."
Joe: Speaketh for thyself.
Mike: Joe is a rockstar...He has his own hairdresser, his own wardrobe case with all leathers in it, and he has to be doped up on something to do a show.

Interviewer: Do you feel famous?
Brad: Do you think we're famous? All I know is that at the show last night we didn't have passes...and yet there were....a...OK...(To Mike) You tell the story.
Mike: My story was that I showed up late. I was busy doing other things.
Brad: Mike is never late.
Mike: Whatever, I showed up a half hour before the show and we got up to the door and the guy stopped us. He says, 'Where's your passes?' and I'm looking past him and there's like these 5 foot posters with our faces on and just for a second I was thinking 'You idiot.' but then my second thought was 'Well cool, I can walk through this club right now and not get stopped by anyone'.
Interviewer: You're turning into Spinal Tap already?
Mike: Only in the sense that we can't find the stage.
Brad: We try to be life imitating art as much as possible when it comes to Spinal Tap.

Q: Being a drummer, you would have the strongest arms in the band?
Rob: MISTA HAHN!

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