Chester Bennington

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

This is a business of love and labor.

I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.