Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.
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There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and always has been.
I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.
Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with.
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.
I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!
The piano is kind of my second instrument.
For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
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