“One More Light is for us a very personal and very therapeutic kind of record,“ Chester said. “We got into a lot of aspects of our lives that we probably wouldn’t have normally shared with anyone and just dealt with it on our own.“
“We brought in various issues and situations into the writing process. When you hear it in the context of the music there’s a hopefulness and there’s a sense of moving forward and moving on and that’s really where we’re coming from.“
“For me personally when we first started working on this record I was coming out of the darkest time of my life and it was all shit that I was doing to myself. It was all stuff that I had control over but even though I felt differently at the time. I felt like the world was full of shit and everybody I knew was full of shit and life sucks and I was like ‘Fuck it.’ All that stuff it was just internal.“
“It was all really things I could work on if I chose to, and make myself happy,“ he said. “You know? Make myself capable of dealing with life on life’s terms, like it’s not always going to be peaches and cream but it doesn’t always have to suck when it’s not. For me it took a lot of work. It actually took me opening up and talking to my friends about it and writing about it, and like going to therapy and battling my demons.“
“I came to a point in my life where I was like, ‘I can either just give up and fucking die or I can fucking fight for what I want.’ And I chose to fight for what I wanted. I wanted to have good relationships. I wanted to love the people in my life. I wanted to enjoy my job. I wanted to enjoy being a dad and having friends and just getting up in the morning. Because that was a struggle for me.“
“And as a result of making [One More Light] and working on all of this stuff over the last couple of years — while it was very hard — I feel like my heart and soul was poured into this record. A lot of my heart and soul, and Brad’s, and Joe’s, and Rob’s, and Dave’s, and Mike’s. We all put so much into this record and allowed for that to happen that — and I’m not going to speak for everyone else — but where I am now in comparison to where I was two years ago is on the opposite end of the spectrum. It was full of darkness and yuck where I was a couple of years ago. It’s the opposite now."
Chester Bennington said that over a period of two years, writing the record and making decisions to tackle his problems, he had helped him to move on and work to get into a better place. He revealed it was his wife Talinda, his six children, and indeed his band and friends who had helped him to find the strength to battle his demons.
Tragically only four months later Chester was found dead at a private residence in Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles, at about 9 a.m. on Thursday July 20.
Rest in Peace, Legend.
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