If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
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. — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music. — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next? — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park. — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
For me, I feel like, if the right movie comes along, I'd do it again. It's not about the budget. It's about whether it's… — Mike Shinoda Copy Share Image
