Mike Shinoda quotes

Mike Shinoda is an American musician, rapper, and record producer best known as a founding member of the band Linkin Park. His work blends rock, hip-hop, and electronic elements, shaping the band's distinctive sound. He is also recognized for his solo projects and contributions to the broader music industry. Here are 26 of his quotes:

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, because I started feeling bad about it.

Mike Shinoda

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 while. That was funny... Although I guess only funny because no one got hurt.

Mike Shinoda

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 might as well be fact, hahaha). But I'm half japanese and half...american, I guess. my mom's family is a mix of a ton of different things. a lot of it is European, and there's a little native American in there. But that side of my family has been in the US forever, so i just call it American to keep it simple.

Mike Shinoda

When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.

Mike Shinoda

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.

Mike Shinoda

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.

Mike Shinoda

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

Mike Shinoda

Oh, happy Perthday!

Mike Shinoda

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

Mike Shinoda

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.

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

I loved Transformers when I was a kid.

Mike Shinoda

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.

Mike Shinoda

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

Mike Shinoda

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

Mike Shinoda

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

Mike Shinoda

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

Mike Shinoda

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

The casual listener won't be around forever.

Mike Shinoda

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.

Mike Shinoda

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

Mike Shinoda

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

Mike Shinoda