Top 30 Mike Shinoda Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Mike Shinoda

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2. “Go find something that you haven’t done before. Don’t do the same thing over and over again.”

— Mike Shinoda

3. “I’m going to sprout wings out of my ass one day and fly around the world.”

— Mike Shinoda

4. “Who can’t relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?”

— Mike Shinoda

5. “I have a toothbrush, my toothbrush is sexy.”

— Mike Shinoda

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

— Mike Shinoda

7. “I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y’all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up.”

— Mike Shinoda

8. “Id rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.”

— Mike Shinoda

9. “I loved Transformers when I was a kid.”

— Mike Shinoda

10. “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.”

— Mike Shinoda

11. “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.”

— Mike Shinoda

12. “My parents still treat Christmas like I’m thirteen years old.”

— Mike Shinoda

13. “The casual listener won’t be around forever.”

— Mike Shinoda

14. “You can forget me now because I was never welcome.”

— Mike Shinoda

15. “When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I’d watch carefully.”

— Mike Shinoda

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

— Mike Shinoda

17. “I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.”

— Mike Shinoda

18. “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.”

— Mike Shinoda

19. “A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.”

— Mike Shinoda

20. “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.”

— Mike Shinoda

21. “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.”

— Mike Shinoda

22. “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.”

— Mike Shinoda

23. “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.”

— Mike Shinoda

24. “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.”

— Mike Shinoda

25. “I really enjoy it – it’s like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I’ve ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don’t drive much anymore, because I started feeling bad about it.”

— Mike Shinoda

26. “I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.”

— Mike Shinoda

27. “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.”

— Mike Shinoda

28. “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.”

— Mike Shinoda

29. “I’ve been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.”

— Mike Shinoda

30. “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.”

— Mike Shinoda

31. “I’m excited to doing more scoring work in the future.”

— Mike Shinoda