Full name: Chester Charles Bennington
Date of Birth: March 20, 1976
Marital Status: Married to Samantha on October 31, 1996
Children: Draven Sebastian (April 19, 2002)
Band History: Grey Daze (1993)
Quotes
Sometimes, when I'm alone, I think about ketchup, because I know that the truth is that its just sitting there in a bottle, by itself. Im pretty sure its real. Sometimes when I'm ketchup, I think about sitting alone, in a bottle. Standing next to the mustard all day.
My hand doesn't matter, you can cut it off for all I care. As long as my voice works. If I lost all feeling from my neck down, if you could string me up and I could sing, I'd be there doing the shows. The fans come first and the shows come first too and that's all that matters to us. We really don't care about anything else except for the music and the kids.
I've always been a good student and a person who grasps new things easily so homework was pointless because I understood it already. So I failed classes but they couldn't throw me out because my tests were perfect. The teachers actually hated me.
I got on the bus and went straight to Arizona State University. I never enrolled because I couldn't afford it but since classes were held with 200-500 people in there - except for advanced philosophy, where there were 10 people - I got away with it. I think the philosophy guy knew, but he turned a blind eye because he enjoyed my presence.
You live, you die... and somewhere in between you'll have children.
I don't think you should ever be ashamed or afraid of who you are, or anything that's happened to you. Life is good, man. You can either feel like a victim all the time, or you can get off your ass and do what you want to do.
Family values means to us that Mike can wear a dress on the bus and we'll still love him!!
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.
