As fans mourn the loss of their hero, his most recent interviews have taken on added significance.
Linkin Park have just released their seventh studio album, One More Light, and lead single, Heavy. The band had been on a major global promotional tour.
In this powerful interview from May 30, Bennington talks movingly about his recent struggles and declares that making the album had been a cathartic and healing experience.
He said: “I was like, ‘F*** the world when we started this and now I’m like, ‘I love you.'”
Bennington added: “There’s more peace and a quiet because I’ve earned that. I’ve worked for it and I have tools…
“We’re all really happy and stoked about what we’ve created and we’re stoked about how we’ve grown as a band and as friends.
“Making this record was not only great for us creatively but great for us as people too.”
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The interview was done for German music magazine and site BILD Musik.
At the end Bennington made a plea for fans to realise that their heroes also have feet of clay.
Bennington ended the interview by saying: “I think it’s important for people to realise that we’re actually human beings, too.”
Throughout the 40-minute chat he and bandmate Mike Shinoda talk candidly about their lives and Bennington opens up about his drug use and previous troubles.
Shinoda has just revealed how he is “heartbroken” at the loss of his friend and bandmate.
Bennington said in the interview: “You can elevate your consciousness, your spirituality by just acknowledging there is a problem. Once you do that you’ve created space between you and that problem. Even if it’s just a moment you have a second to reflect and breathe on it.
“That’s what I’ve been doing, I know I have this pattern of getting into this pattern of getting into these kinds of thoughts and actions and choices and I’m going to do what I can so that I just live in the moment… That’s what Heavy is about, recognising and realising that I can do something about this and let go and move forward.”
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