Mike Shinoda Quotes

I'm Excited To Doing More Scoring Work In The Future.

I Find That The Things That Really, You Know, Get Us Fired Up, Tend To Be Things That, For Example, Things That You Talk About Tonight, What We See In The News.

I Like Sneakers. I Guess I Could Call Myself A Collector.

I Spent Ten Years Playing Classical Piano, And That Was What Led To Keyboards And Eventually To Production And To Linkin Park.

I've Been Really Excited About Some New Cutting Edge Electronic Music And Technology.

When I Was In High School, If My Favorite Band Got Too Popular, I'd Watch Carefully.

I Was A Producer And Rapper Before Linkin Park. Once The Band Took Off, It Was The Center Of My Focus. A Couple Of Years Ago, I Started Missing Doing Straight-up Hip Hop, And That's When Fort Minor Began.

I Remember Being A Little Kid Sitting In The Living Room With My Brother And Some Friends From Around The Neighborhood, And I Would Sit At The Piano And As They Were Running Around The Room Doing Different Things And Being Silly, Acting Out, I Would Actually Play The Score For It - The Music That Went Along With It.

Right Now, When It Comes To Making An Album, We Really Want To Give Our Fans Just Linkin Park. We Don't Want To Water It Down With Anything Else Or Confuse It With Anything Else. Meteora Is Just Us And That's Where Our Focus Has Been. So Hopefully The Fans Can Enjoy That.

Global Warming. Every Day I Leave My House And Think, "was It This Hot Last Year?" The Heat This Summer Here In La And In Most Of The Us Has Been Unbearable. I Can't Remember Another Time When It Was 105 Degrees Fahrenheit Out Here (40.5 Celsius), And That's The Kind Of Weather We've Been Having Pretty Much Every Day.

I Liked The Piano. I Always Liked Playing. I Just Hated Homework.

I Grew Up Painting And Playing Piano So When I Was A Little Kid I Thought I Was Going To Be An Artist Or A Painter But My Mom Had Me Taking Piano Lessons For About 10-12 Years As A Young Kid.