“I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to ke...” — Mike Shinoda Quote

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

“I got over being embarrassed.”

“I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.”

“Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.”

“I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.”

“My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.”