Quotes by Mike Shinoda

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

“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 wh...”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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'm not russian! just wanted to drop in and say hi. also, I wanted to clear up the fact that i'm not half Russian. I don't know where people get their facts (probably on the internet, where rumor m...”

“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...”

“I just realized that I hadn't posted about the film An Inconvenient Truth for those of you who don't know, this movie talks about global warming. I went into the movie a little skeptical, wondering...”

“Sometimes when I do an interview, the journalist asks about political and social issues. I rarely answer those types of questions because I would rather a fan or reader get their information from t...”

“I heard some folks saying, I heard that warm temperatures like this happen every few years--it's normal. I also know that a lot of people are afraid to ask what it is and what causes it... here are...”

“I really enjoy it -- it's like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don't drive much anymore...”

“It was a fun show. At one point the barricade in front of the stage gave way, which scared the concert promoters because they thought people were going to get hurt. So we had to stop the show for a...”

“Oh, happy Perthday!”