Chester Bennington

“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.”

“If you're a fan of our music, you're a fan of the band. It's not about you, it's about the music.”

“The only thing that I'm not willing to do is sacrifice my personal integrity.”

“You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear them, they have already hurt you.”

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

“When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.”

“I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself.”

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

“For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. It's why I'm on the planet.”

“If I'm singing about something I'm going through, I want it to be real.”

“It's cool to be a part of a culture, but this culture is gonna change.”

“Trying to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

“I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.”

“There's an emptiness inside of me...a hole that I've tried to fill with things like success and popularity and money.”

“What's the worst thing I've stolen? Probably a girl's heart.”

“The sun doesn't give light to the moon, assuming the moon's going to owe it one.”

“I'm not a preacher, and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel like the nature of my life has been to try to find enlightenment.”

“My whole life, I've just felt a little off.”

“When you're young and you're angry, you're not trying to be a role model.”

“We are the architects of our own destruction.”