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" A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals. "
Long
Time
Goals
" As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off. "
You
Creative
Head
" Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again. "
Over
Go
Find
" I'd rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body. "
Early
Body
Late
" 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. "
Opportunities
Band
Good
" I got over being embarrassed. "
Over
Got
Being
" 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. "
Kid
Me
Artist
" I have a BFA in illustration. "
Illustration
" 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. "
Back
Today
Bright
" I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework. "
Just
Always
Playing
" I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector. "
Call
Collector
Sneakers
" I loved Transformers when I was a kid. "
Kid
Loved
Transformers
" I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future. "
Excited
Work
Doing
" In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them. "
Myself
School
High School
" I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it. "
Remember
Brother
Doing
" I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park. "
Park
Piano
Playing
" I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology. "
Music
Edge
Excited
" Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment. "
Worth
Entertainment
Advice
" Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art. "
Art
Think
Man
" 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. "
Uncle
Say
Class
" My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old. "
Old
Christmas
Like
" The casual listener won't be around forever. "
Listener
Casual
Forever
" The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs. "
Different
Software
Ways
" Usually I spend my holidays with my family. "
Holidays
Family
Spend
" We have people in the band who don't drink or do drugs... some of us like to go sightseeing. "
People
Go
Like
" We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music. "
Band
You
Pretty
" When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully. "
School
Band
High
" 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. "
Never
Band
Sound
" Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next? "
Moving
Chapter
Who
" You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material. "
You
Up
Back
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