Chino Moreno

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Old Korn records had so much intensity.”