Mike Shinoda Quotes

We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs... some of us like to go sightseeing.
We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.
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.
A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.
As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.
Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.
I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.
I got over being embarrassed.
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.
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 like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.
I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.
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 spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.
I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.
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.
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