Chino Moreno Quotes

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Old Korn records had so much intensity.

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

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

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.