"I don't wanna see any more girls who look like they've had the shit kicked out of them, What happened to chivalry? You see someone fall down, you pick 'em up!"

"NOW who's REALLY down with the lp underground?"... "some fan just donated a cell phone to the band.. too bad the fuckin thing DOESN'T WORK" (projekt : revolution concert, 2-12-02)

“It's ridiculous to think that someone could hear lyrics to a song and take those lyrics to a level of violence. I think that if that person is going to act that way, they're going to do that without the music. There is obviously something that happened to that kid in his life that affected him a lot deeper than our lyrics.”

“I've never been one of those kids that waits to hang out with the band - I've always been too afraid. There's no way in hell I would ever walk up to somebody's bus and ask for an autograph, no way would I ever do that. I would be afraid that one of the crew would come out and beat me up. The kids who have the balls to hang out, I'm going to make sure they have their stuff signed, because that takes guts.”

"We try to meet as many fans as possible. If we could meet everyone at the venue, that would be great, but sometimes it's impossible. I hope that they walk away thoroughly enjoying the band. And just become fans and enjoy the music that we make."

"I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up."

“If there's one thing that is true about this band, we definitely work really well under pressure.”

“We definitely draw from experiences when we write, but when you actually listen, I can be singing a line or a verse and people will assume that it's me writing it and it could very well be Mike's lyric.”

“If you give everything about yourself up, then it kind of destroys the experience for yourself and it takes away a little bit of the mystery.”

“I definitely don't want my personal life strewn about in the papers.”

“We’re pretty straight guys: we’re not boozers, we’re not fucked up on drugs.”

“We just want to be honest and not hide any emotions with vulgarity.”

"It was nice smelling all of you."

“People see us after a show and it’s like, ‘Wait a second - you’re supposed to be this scary guy, and you’re not.’"

“I'm not a God-fearing Christain and certainly don't preach to people about what they should or shouldn't do. I definitely believe that there is somebody out there who put all this shit together. Something doesn't come from nothing, and that's a philosophical fact. I definitely think that I got a lot of strength from just believing in something, and it didn't really matter what it was.”

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with flamboyance as long as you don’t turn into a jerk and smack little girls or boys who ask for your autograph!”

“It’s ridiculous to turn on the people who make you what you are, and that’s the people who buy your records.”

“If I was charging $25 for signing autographs you could call me a dick for that.”

"That was what my brother was listening to, it wasn't my fault! My brother is like 13 years older than me. So when he was a teenager, bands like Loverboy, Foreigner and Rush were huge in the rock scene. That was his thing, so it influenced me."

“My favorite jellybean is the pink one with the flavor inside.”

“In this country, people do not think about the sensitivity of young men. It’s a real tragedy. For kids to be able to listen to bands like us who are able to express ourselves - not through violence and vulgarity - I think it helps them learn to express themselves.”

“I love to hear the crowd sing along. I get the biggest hard-on from that. Of course, it means I have an erection for a whole hour every night.”

“Buying new CDs is a real treat for me, I just love it, I think it’s part of who I am. I like browsing music stores and picking out cool CDs, and of course to listen to them. I can’t imagine that I’’ll ever grow tired of it or grow out of it.”

“So now I draw, design and make my own clothes, I’m not just purchasing it from a manufacturer and putting my name on it and selling it - I’m creating, like a painter or whatever, it’s just another side of something I do, but fortunately I make money on it.”

“We’ve made a business, make a partnership, made an understand and we’ve made a family here. This is how we put bread on the table, this is how we make a living and this is what we enjoy doing.”

“People who like your music are always going to like your music.”

"There's this 13-year-old kid from Pittsburgh. He comes up to us and goes, 'I'm stalking you dude, and when you reach the peak of your success I'm going to kill you.' Then, during the show he's down the front telling Mike that he wants to 'rape his soul'! I think that's cool, but he probably needs to chill out a bit."

"I probably shouldn't admit this but I own every Madonna record on the planet."

“I think Justins’ cute.”
(when asked what he thought of boy bands)

“I think that parents who force their young boys to wear mullets should be institutionalized. There's no reason to ever have a mullet……Unless you're doing it just to be a dork.”

"I've had a couple of friends commit suicide when I was growing up. I also lost a friend in a tragic freak skateboarding accident. He was skateboarding down this little hill, hit a pebble and hit his head just right, and it was over. It can happen to you a million times when you're a kid, you fall down and hit your head-he just happened to hit the wrong spot."

“We’re shooting for the title of hardest-working band in American.”

“We had no control over this, we have no control over anything that happens for any reason, with the exception of writing bad music, and hopefully our record company doesn’t forget how to run a record company - and that is pretty unlikely, they’ve been around for awhile!”

“The rule in music land is never doody in the bus and never doody in the RV.”

“There's nothing funnier than seeing a guy walking away from a conversation with his ass hanging out, you know?”

“The most important thing to me is definitely connecting with people. Hopefully, the lyrics I write and the songs that I write will inspire people to do something or make them feel better or something. I think that if that happens, I have succeeded.”

“It's really weird for me to be considered a rock star - I call myself Chester. People tell me that I am one, so I guess that makes me one. From an outside perspective, that's really cool and stuff, but it's really weird for me.”

"You know those snow saucers? I rode one down a cliff once and went headfirst into a brick wall. I had to have 47 stitches but thankfully I'm here to tell the tale."

“I've been in some other bands, but this is the first time I've been in a group that if I wasn't [a member] I would go out and buy the album."

"The word 'hybrid' is derived from when scientists started cross-breeding different plants and animals to make a new species. Since we were a cross-breed of different styles, it seemed right for us."

"You can't believe what people tell you, because that's when you become an asshole."

”I risked everything to do this. I risked my relationship with my parents and I risk my relationship with my wife constantly. Just being in this business and touring is difficult enough on a relationship, and to be able to say that I did that and people supported me is huge.”

“I figure I’ve signed enough boobies in my life to be done with boobies - to sign, I mean.”

"There's a Lincoln Park in every city in America. There's no real meaning behind our name. We just changed the spelling so that we could afford to buy the web domain name."

"This kid who was at our show a couple of days ago was asking me what effects I ran my vocals through. I was like, 'No dude, I don't do any of that shit! If I fuck up, you'll hear it'."

"I hate writing about love. Love songs are a big waste of time to me, its the same regurgitated crap you hear every day."

“We know who we are and we're not going to change that."

“We’re not a bunch of goody-two-shoes, but we do have responsibilities to ourselves and our families and the people in this group, and we respect that."

"I don't come from a musical family, it's just something I've always been interested in. I started singing for fun, I just went around the house trying to mimic my favorite band. I always dreamt about being the fifth member of Depeche Mode. I dreamt that they flew their plane out to my grade school, picked me up and took me on tour with them."

“I think that Slipknot and Korn are great bands and for people to think that we can hang with bands like that is really cool."