The only detail that I can give you is that fuck it’s badass.
Chino Moreno (on upcoming album Koi No Yokan)
“It is difficult to talk about. It’s something that we have to deal with personally. He’s my friend… I love that dude and I miss him, and I think about him every day”. - Chino Moreno
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“It is difficult to talk about. It’s something that we have to deal with personally. He’s my friend… I love that dude and I miss him, and I think about him every day”. - Chino Moreno

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Deftones - Digital Bath

“I don’t remember writing it really, but every time I look back it’s one of my favorites.” - Chino Moreno

Obviously we’re an aggressive band — not the heaviest, but there’s a lot of attack. But there’s also this lush beauty that flows within everything that we do, and that’s my favorite part of the band. To me, it’s the epitome of what the Deftones do.
Chino Moreno
I like actually going on YouTube and watching covers like seeing a girl in a room on an acoustic guitar or someone on a piano transposing one of our songs. That stuff is awesome and its cool to think that our music inspired someone to try and figure it out and cycle through them and do their own version of it and it’s rad for sure.
Chino Moreno
That song (Mascara) has to do with my wife and how there’s certain things about her that I really don’t like and there’s a lot of things about her that I do like. And that’s why the song says ‘There’s something about her long shady eyes’. There’s just something about her that’s basically going to keep me with her forever no matter what. I think the day I die she’s going to be next to me and that’s what I want. No matter what. But there’s a lot of things about her that I don’t like and at the end of the song I say ‘It’s too bad you’re married to me’… because, I’m probably worse. I’m probably the worst person to be stuck with.
Chino Moreno
I’m just that good.
Chino Moreno
I don’t tell too many stories. I’m not into politics; I don’t have anything to say about how people should think. I don’t think of myself as a lyricist; I write the lyrics but I am not a guy that sits around writing poetry and then say, ‘I want to write a song about this or that’. It just sort of happens. I’m lucky that it works.
Chino Moreno
It’s safe to say that a lot of music that I listen to, and that we make, is influenced by hot chicks.
Chino Moreno
It sucks to be misunderstood or have people think you’re an asshole because you have certain opinions, so it’s easy to clam up and keep to yourself. But if you do that too much, you look like an asshole anyway.
Chino Moreno