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.
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.
This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name.
My parents still treat Christmas like I’m thirteen years old.
I have a toothbrush, my toothbrush is sexy.
I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.
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 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.
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.
The casual listener won’t be around forever.
I loved Transformers when I was a kid.
I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.
I’m excited to doing more scoring work in the future.
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.
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.
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.
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’ve been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.