* "Basically, I just like to bang the shit out of the drums." (And I bet you like to bang other things too...)
-Rolling Stone, March 29, 2001
* "What I love about Vater Drum Sticks is that they are always consistent. I can pick up any pair and right away they become an extension of my body. Chad Brandolini and the team over at Vater have always taken great care of me. I have never gone stickless any where in the world.� (So, basically, they ensure that you're sporting wood? I didn't know you needed help. *snicker, snicker*)
-Vater.com's Artist Spotlight
* "We have some soda in here and some smelly deli trays 'cause everyones' afraid to touch it."
-Frat Party @ The Pankake Festival
* "It bumps." (You have to watch the DVD to find this quote cute.)
-Frat Party @ The Pankake Festival
* "We don't believe it's an industry standard to be a band on the road, partying and drunk. Would you go to work drunk every day?"
-Rolling Stone, March 14, 2002
* "I'm not a breast signer. You know, you don't know how old these girls are. They're pulling their shirts off, and you start signing their breasts. If one sees you signing, then the girl next to her wants hers signed, and she might be 15-16 years old; and that's just not right, you know? So, yeah, we don't want to be signing breasts. It's not our thing."
-Fort Wayne Music Interview
* "I'm very grateful for my life today." (Alright, just a warning, I'm gonna gush...now: That's sweet. :) )
-+PAPER CUT+ (Linkin Park fansite, who, also, provided many pics for this site...thanks!)
ON HOW ROAD LIFE HAS CHANGED FOR THE BAND:
* "We pretty much drove ourselves. We were in an RV that kept breaking down, and we were on tour with the Union Underground; opening up for them. One of their songs was just starting to break on the radio. We didn't have any songs on the radio at that time, so it was hard. We were loading all of our own gear. We had those big road cases, so we'd show up to our gig, unload all of our cases, and unload all of the gear. I would set up my drums. We'd have 'em, like off to the side of the stage. We'd load all of our gear onto stage, usually after doors were open [to the public]. And then, load everything off after the show, pack our gear up, and load it out. You know, there'd be a big line of us walking down the sidewalk with all of our road cases. We'd load 'em into the trailer, and drive off to the next city. And now, it's like just over a year later, we have a 14-person crew, 3 buses, a studio on one bus, and it's much easier to be out here, definitely. We'd be beat up pretty bad if we were still in an RV. We'd still be doing it, if that were the case, though; no matter what. So, we're just lucky to have had such success, and to have those albums sell. We're fortunate enough to be able to sleep in a bus now, instead of an RV."
-Fort Wayne Music Interview
ON HOW THE BAND MANAGED TO SCORE A GIG @ THE WHISKEY (FAMOUS L.A. CLUB):
* "Basically, with clubs of that magnitude, you pay to play. If you can sell enough tickets, you can play. But, actually, we made a little bit of money, because we could sell a lot of tickets. At that time, all of us were either in school, or just out of school. I was in between high school and college. So, we had a lot of friends at school, and all of us would each try to sell 50 to 75 tickets. We would just go crazy, and try to sell them to everyone; family members, it didn't matter. We had to sell them to everyone just to play there."
-Fort Wayne Music Interview
ON HYBRID THEORY SWEARING ISSUE:
* "It wasn't thought out before we started writing the record that we were going to do a record with no curse words. When they were working on the lyrics, it kind of just came out like that. They were trying to really express how they were feeling, and a curse word thrown in there would've almost been like a cop-out. It's much more difficult, I think, to find words to explain how you're really feeling, instead of just throwing some cuss words in an angry part of a song. Trying to find those words that express that frustration is much more expressive and difficult."
-Fort Wayne Music Interview