Mike Shinoda

You can forget me now because I was never welcome.

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.

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

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

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

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

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 think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.