Chester Bennington is interviewed about future album from Linkin Park

February 13, 2008

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"We sparked a new kind of life into what we do during the writing of [’Midnight’]… We want to keep that going. I think we’re in the mode, and I have a good feeling we’re going to put another record out really quickly.""There was a long period of time between the release of 2003’s ‘Meteora’ and ‘Minutes to Midnight’," Bennington says. "Even though we did tour [for ‘Meteora’] for two years, we didn’t start working on writing [’Midnight’] until seven months after we stopped touring. So it seemed like a really, really long time to our fans and it seemed like a really, really long time to us. I don’t see that happening again…. I never anticipate what we’re gonna do," he explains. "I find that overplanning a creative project usually means you’re gonna screw it up, so I really don’t focus on what we’re gonna do. When a song comes, I’ll write it. When a song comes to Mike [Shinoda], he’ll put an idea down. We just kind of roll with it spontaneously."