Mike ★ Shinoda [Argentina]

"Before the first song that you hear me on there were people already trying to get me gone. Telling me to quit rapping, just play the keys, that "My band had a singer", "They didn't need me". But my band had my back, so we did the tracks, put out the album and the talk went flat. It was funny at first, but then the humor faded when some magazines printed that our label made us. We were too good to be true some were saying ghostwriters were writing all that we do. So we had to disprove it, we spelled it out to the detail, how we do it when we're making this music. After that I made it a rule: I only do email responses to print interviews. Because there people love to put a twist to your words to infer that you said something fucking absurd. Oh, did I lose you at 'infer'? Not used to hearing a verse that uses over first-grade vocabulary words? People used to infer that we were manufactured. Now I've got the interviews on file which people said what, which number to dial. So now every enemy screaming insanity, all they're ever gonna be's another big fan of me BITCH."