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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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