Mike Shinoda

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

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

“The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.”

“A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.”

“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.”

“You can forget me now because I was never welcome.”

“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.”

“Usually I spend my holidays with my family.”

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

“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 loved Transformers when I was a kid.”