If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.

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.

For me, I feel like, if the right movie comes along, I'd do it again. It's not about the budget. It's about whether it's something that I'm excited to work on.

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.

Dream big, work hard and don't be an asshole!