Chino Moreno quotes:

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

Old Korn records had so much intensity.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.