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.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

I loved Transformers when I was a kid.

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.

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

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.

I got over being embarrassed.

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.

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.

Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.

Usually I spend my holidays with my family.

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