Chino Moreno Quotations

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!

When I see old friends, I'm very excited.

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

Deja vu is one of the weirdest things that happens to me. It boggles my mind.

A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

The Butcherettes are led by a female singer, and they're sort of wild.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

I went to see Mogwai at the Fillmore, and that was both the loudest and quietest concert I've ever been to.

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

I have this natural want to... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records.

Anything I do with Team Sleep, I'd do with Deftones as well.

For me, the best part of being in a band is playing shows, all the raw energy.

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

I want to talk about my band, you know what I mean? I don't want to talk about other bands.

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

When you're younger, you have a lot more aggression.

As Korn go on, it's the same things - bad childhoods and mean moms. It gets too old after a while. How old is Jonathan? Thirty? How long has it been since he lived with his parents?

Deftones is always my main focus. I’ve been doing it the longest and it’s definitely a priority. I think of these as projects. It’s not like I’m unfulfilled with a need to find another outlet. I look at it as making music with my friends, and I’m blessed that they’re great musicians.

It's fun, working with different people, everybody works differently. When I have time off from music, I want to make other music. That's what I do, that's what's fun, that's what makes me happy.

I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.

That was weird because we were the oldest band there. You see a lot of the younger bands, and it's just a reminder of how things are now. It was a good time, but we felt like grandparents out there sometimes.

When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you've pretty much heard the whole song, that's kind of a bummer.

We've had a crazy relationship because we've always distanced ourselves from Korn so we could be our own band. Their first record came out before ours, so it was always like we were following in their footsteps. And I think we had to do that, and now it's time to just have fun. We don't care so much about that stuff anymore. We just want to play with friends.

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything, really. There were times when we really got along and I learned a lot of things from him but there were a lot of times when he's in his own world where he thinks he knows what's best and he doesn't know what's best, really. It just wasn't fun to do and it wasn't a fun record to make. The music turned out rad. It's just when you're making a record, especially when you're working on vocals, I've only worked with a couple of producers and most of the records I've done with Terry Date . The reason we chose Ezrin is because we wanted to do something different, but I learned that different isn't always good.