When I Was In High School, If

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.

Global Warming. Every Day I Leave My House And Think, "was It This Hot Last Year?" The Heat This Summer Here In La And In Most Of The Us Has Been Unbearable. I Can't Remember Another Time When It Was 105 Degrees Fahrenheit Out Here (40.5 Celsius), And That's The Kind Of Weather We've Been Having Pretty Much Every Day.

I Spent Ten Years Playing Classical Piano, And That Was What Led To Keyboards And Eventually To Production And To Linkin Park.

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 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.