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.

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

I'm going to sprout wings out of my ass one day and fly around the world.

I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.

I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.

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

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.