Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst took part in a reflective chat with Flipboard answering some of the bigger picture comments about his life and legacy. Some excerpts can be found below:
On Limp Bizkit‘s legacy:
“I’m not really sure what it is. I think Limp Bizkit is very polarizing. From my perspective, as a kid who was tortured and bullied throughout my coming of age, Limp Bizkit was an outlet to stand up for myself, so to speak. If anybody has found [Limp Bizkit] at one of those moments in their lives, that would be the most meaningful part of it—for me.
I mean I can’t believe it exists, we exist. That all this stuff has happened; it’s sort of taken on a life of its own. I’m like a fish out of water in L.A., blown away all the time by the people I’m exposed to. I wake up every morning at the crack of dawn just super excited and can’t believe what’s happened.”
On how he would describe the band’s music:
“Well, I always come into Limp Bizkit with an urban approach. The rock parts of it are grounded and brought in by rock elements that others players were inspired by. So, I think it is rock-rap more than it would be rap-rock, from my perspective. A lot of our fans throughout the year wanted more rock, or more of this, and less rap and less that, and I always come from a place where it was The Beastie Boys meets The Cure meets Pantera meets Cypress Hill.
I don’t know how to describe it; it’s an interesting question. I don’t even know what to think about it. I’m Fred from Limp Bizkit, and I’m always gonna be, and for 20 years I’m very, very proud of it. I love performing with these guys a lot because that’s how it started, the feeling that we got when we played together and the interaction that we were able to have with people consuming the sound. An interactive live experience: we give, they give back, we give more, they give back more. We’ve never really been great at writing songs, probably. I don’t know what the sound is really, but I’d say it’s a serendipitous urban collision.”
On if he would have done anything differently:
“Ohhh man, that is something I learned too. Don’t live in regret. Move forward. Everything I did, I did with my heart, I did with sincerity, I made decisions from my gut. So I could sleep at night. I never did something because of something else. Even my character in Limp Bizkit, my Tyler Durden, I just knew he was that and I knew that he got a license to ill and people are going to forget about this thing anyway, I thought, so Tyler Durden comes out or the guy in the red cap and it’s just on. And I let him do that.
Being a shy kid who doesn’t know what to say and all of a sudden you go to another place mentally and you are that guy in front of a camera…I never wanted to be in front of a camera; I wanted to be behind it, but it kind of went the other way. So I don’t know what I would change, and if I really thought about it and had to give an answer the list would probably be so long. I have a lot of embarrassing moments. Being a late bloomer, I probably didn’t make the greatest decision in the moment.”
Read on over at Flipboard.com.
