Mike Shinoda Quotes

I was a big Transformers fan.

I never played with anything like toys.

Growing up, I really liked 'Star Wars.' Han Solo would've been really cool to meet. But my stuff was real low-brow. I was watching 'Bugs Bunny.'

But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

'Rugrats' was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.

'Transformers' inspired me as a kid.

I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.

I'm walking around our apartment right now, and I see tons of action figures everywhere. There's Spider-Man stuff, old 1996 WWF figures, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Marvel stuff.

Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'

I wish I had been a child when the Smurfs came on television.

'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.

I'm not the most sophisticated person. I'm not the smartest person in the world. But, I know what makes me excited about life, from Spielberg movies to Michael Jackson music videos to cartoons on Saturday mornings, which made my childhood.

I was a huge fan of that Cyborg growing up as a kid because that was when the original cartoon show was on, and Khary Payton is a master at what he does.

I grew up watching Transformers. I think it was one of the first cartoons that I started watching as a kid. It was awesome. I would set my clock every morning before I went to school. It was a big part of my childhood.

I am part of this generation with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Peter Pan.' I think we all grew up in this culture of pirates.

I grew up with SpongeBob - it came out in 1999, right before I turned 7. So it's been a part of my life and all my friends' lives and defined our humor, in a way.

The 'Jonny Quest' theme had a huge influence on me while I was growing up.

'Remember the Time' and 'You Rock My World' from Michael Jackson were two of my favorite songs ever. My mom used to bump them all the time.

I'm not really into 'My Little Pony.' I'm not a 'Brony,' just to clear that up.

I remember when I was a kid and I was interested in robots, there was really nothing out there but Erector Sets and Tinker Toys.

I like 'SpongeBob' for real - I used to watch it 24-7.

I watch a lot of Disney.

I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young - most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.