"I'd do classes from nine to four, four to seven and seven to ten at night," he says over the swish of traffic from the Ventura Freeway half a block away. "I'd go from there to band practice in Hollywood for two or three hours, then all the way back to my parents house and work on paintings until I couldn't do it anymore. Then I'd get up and do it all over again." "We want to give people a starting block with the lyrics so that they can relate their own story to it. Our songs come from something that happened to us or an emotion that we feel. We want it put out there in a way that is as accurate to the way we feel as we can say it."It has never been our goal to be like popular, if you ask different people in the band they will have different answers, but my goal was to blend the different types of music, and not to say, this is going to be the hip hop part and this is going to be the rock part, we want you to hear our songs and know that you're listening to Linkin Park." "We write a lot of the songs together. The choruses are so important for example that everybody has a little bit of say in what goes on. You never hurt anybody's feelings by talking about any parts of the songs. Everybody has their say and writes the songs and we're all really proud of what we've come up with." "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 definetly want to start wearing matching outfits, choreographing, and lip-syncing our live show." It has never been our goal to be like popular, if you ask different people in the band they will have different answers, but my goal was to blend the different types of music, and not to say, this is going to be the hip hop part and this is going to be the rock part, we want you to hear our songs and know that you're listening to Linkin Park." "I think that it's a melting pot where we've got a lot of things that come together but in the end they all just gel and just become one song and that's what is most important to us. It's just a song. It's not the rap part and the rock part and the electronic part and the singing part and the rapping and the screaming and the whispering." "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." "I think, in the lyrics, we're generally a little more introverted, a little more just trying to be honest and sum up some of these everyday universal emotions that we all feel. And that is something that's hopefully, just as individual as the way each person talks." Come to the shows, come and meet us, because we love to hang out, everytime we have a show we will come to our merchandise booth and we will meet all of you and talk and sign autographs or whatever, just come out." "Our Lincoln Park is in Santa Monica, CA. But when we started national touring, everyone thought we were a local band wherever we went, because there are so many Lincoln Parks everywhere. It was basically our band joke: we were local everywhere we went." We support free music. So go ahead! Download that shit!" "The songwriting will still be tight, but you'll find a lot more complex writing going on. And Joe plans to say 'fuck' all over it" - Mike, on their 2nd album                                                                                                                                                         BACK