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.

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

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.

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 loved Transformers when I was a kid.

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

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