Usually I spend my holidays with my family. Mike Shinoda More Quotes by Mike Shinoda More Quotes From Mike Shinoda 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. Mike Shinoda redelbowshair 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 something that I'm excited to work on. Mike Shinoda budgetsexcitedfeels Right now, when it comes to making an album, we really want to give our fans just Linkin Park. We don't want to water it down with anything else or confuse it with anything else. Meteora is just us and that's where our focus has been. So hopefully the fans can enjoy that. Mike Shinoda focusgivingwater global warming. every day i leave my house and think, "was it this hot last year?" the heat this summer here in LA and in most of the US has been unbearable. i can't remember another time when it was 105 degrees fahrenheit out here (40.5 celsius), and that's the kind of weather we've been having pretty much every day. Mike Shinoda summeryearsthinking I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework. Mike Shinoda homeworkpianohated 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. Mike Shinoda brothersillyrunning I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park. Mike Shinoda keyboardspianoyears 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 rappercoupleyears I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector. Mike Shinoda collectorssneakers I find that the things that really, you know, get us fired up, tend to be things that, for example, things that you talk about tonight, what we see in the news. Mike Shinoda newstonightexample I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future. Mike Shinoda excited When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully. Mike Shinoda bandwatchesschool I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology. Mike Shinoda excitedcuttingtechnology 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. Mike Shinoda computersyoumanart You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material. Mike Shinoda listenbackgoyou I got over being embarrassed. Mike Shinoda gotoverbeingembarrassed We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs... some of us like to go sightseeing. Mike Shinoda godrinkbandpeople We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music. Mike Shinoda prettyyoubandmusic In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them. Mike Shinoda myselffriendshigh-schoolschool I have a BFA in illustration. Mike Shinoda illustration
