Mike Shinoda Quotes

It's good to experience different things.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go.

I want to do a lot of different things and dive into different worlds.

I like new challenges and new experiences.

Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

I always do something that I've never done before.

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

It's fun doing new things.

I don't always just want to do the same thing.

I don't want to get stale. I'm always interested in new things.

It's always more interesting to do new things.

I'm that type of person that if I feel like I'm doing the same thing in life, then I'm stuck. Always gotta be moving and doing something different.

I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?

The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.