Mike: Rob.
Rob: Hi, how's it going?
Mike: Any thoughts, concerns?
Rob: No, just chillin with Big Ben.
Q: So how do you guys like fame?
Mike: We're famous?
Chester: Are you sure?
Phoenix: Sub famous!
Mike: That's craptacular!
Brad: Jones soda rules!
Mike: I like the green apple.
Joe: Hehe green froggie apple!
Chester: Crushed melon is good!
Rob: Hehehe you said melon!
Mike: Mellon...Melons...Bozoooooms!
MTV: Let's talk about your success. You've sold over a million
records...
Mike: We've sold over a million records?
Chester: We did?
MTV: Have you?
Mike: Whoa!!
Brad: I want to know if Joe Hahn sleeps in the nude?
Mike: Yes he does (wink wink).
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: 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!
PRP: If forced by a gunpoint by a militant mutant giraffes, would you
do a tutu and sing Sea Shanty's on live TV?
Mike: Sure. What color tutu? Would you sing with me?
Mike: Brad Delson only wears Urban Decay nail polish, available at Hot
Topic.
Brad: Do you ever get the feeling other people are jealous of you?
Q: So how important has the Internet been in your development.
Mike: Well, www.linkinparkporn.com has been a very important part of
our lives....
Chester: How many of you are pissed right now?
Audience: (cheers)
Chester: Good. See in America that means you're mad but, here it means
you're happy. Woo!
Dynamic Rock: Is there anything about the band and its members that
nobody knows about and you would like to share with us?
Linkin Park: Mr. Hahn has a split personality named Remy. Remy is a
dangerous man. He keeps the rest of us on our toes.
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 on 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 bus, or I need to install a
half of a bus in my room, with bunks, so I can sleep in it.
Joe: Mike got up and walked over there, looked at the TV, sat on the
table and broke it
Mike: I put my (laughing) I put my fat ass on the table and I broke
it! Oh my God I am so embarrassed
Joe: Now we are taking apart the table and hiding it in the hopes that
the hotel doesn't notice and make us pay for it
Mike: (sniffs).. Aww who layed the egg?!? (looks at Chester)
Chester: (smiles) Quack Quack
Chester: The best thing I'd ever done to my parents was learning to
use the toilet.'
Brad: The best thing I'd ever done to Joe's parents was pretends that
we were friends.'
Mike: The best thing I'd ever done is when my brother went to oversea
and I came back home as a Christmas present.
Chester: In a box.
Mike: Yes, in a box.
Mike: We're not like other bands you know. We actually visit our
website and care about our internet fans. We visit as many fan sites as
possible.
Joe: Yes and I like to send threatening emails to people.
Phoenix: No you don't.
Joe: Yes I do! Shh, it�s supposed to be a secret!
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: 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.
Interviewer: 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?
Linkin Park: 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.
Q: Do you guys break stuff to relieve tension? I heard a lot of bands
do that?
Joe: Mike likes to break glass tables
Mike: Joe likes to break wind
Chester: When iI retire from music, I actually plan to become a
professional wrestler, I�m going to be the smallest professional wrestler in
history and my manager is Mr. Hahn. We're called the sugar brothers. My
professional move which takes down everybody is i just run around in circles
until that, ya 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 that's 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 don't even know right now but I'm pinning you
to the ground.
Chester: Yeah, he's taking you down.
Brad: You're goin down.
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!
Mike: I chipped a tooth on a mic once. I hurt my back in the pit.
Chester got spit on. We got human fecies 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: 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: My walls are about 3 inches thick and my neighbors must have
thought people were dying in my house! The whole neighborhood 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 neighbors; "SHUT UP! I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!"
Chester: At 10 o'clock every night, we'd hear (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.
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 it�s
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: ...It�s 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.
Q: 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 rock star...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.
