I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

Mainstream success and controversies (1998–2005)
Limp Bizkit achieved mainstream success with the albums Significant Other (1999) and Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000). Sammy Siegler took over drumming duties for the band for much of the album. You don't see that.

Durst played in a number of local bands in Florida while mowing lawns being a record exec and working as a tattoo artist for financial support. William Frederick "Fred" Durst (born August 20 1970) is an American musician and film director from Jacksonville Florida. Durst is best known as the vocalist of the multi-platinum rock band Limp Bizkit formed in 1994 with whom he has released six studio albums.