Quotes from Mike Shinoda

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs... some of us like to go sightseeing.

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

The casual listener won't be around forever.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.

I have a BFA in illustration.

I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more.

I loved Transformers when I was a kid.

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.

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.

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.

We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.

Usually I spend my holidays with my family.