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Name: Stephen Carpenter Band: Deftones Position Guitar Date Of Birth 27. July, 1973 Place Of Birth ? Sex Male Official Site: The Deftones Fan Site: 7 words Fan Site: Daves Deftones Fan Site: Deftones Fan Site: Fan Site Fan Site: Fan Site

-"It's weird, 'cause I don't skate like I used to. When I was a kid I wanted to be sponsored, and, you know, the whole nine yards and then I got hit by a car and that pretty much brought my skateboard culture to a screeching halt, but I eventually picked it up when I started to walk again."


-"Homeboy is tripping. But don't give him no whiskey. When he's sober, nice guy Chi is hanging. When he's drunk, forget it. He is like the absolute opposite. Once his eyes start getting googly, then you know it's on. He'll stare at you for 10 minutes like you did something wrong."


-"When you're a new band, it's hard to convince clubs in different cities to let you play and pay you it's not like bands can just travel anywhere at the drop of a hat I mean, nobody minds playing for free half the time, but when it comes to travelling you still have to pay for costs. So it adds up."


-"If we ever get signed, I want to set up the whole band in the back yard around 1:00 a.m. and just blam"


-"Chino has a softer image, Chino will eventually be a girl, he will go from being a man to a woman, by the next album he will be female. He'll have breasts, a sex change, his name will no longer be Camillo itll be Camile, Camilla."


-"Four Mexicans. We were all skaters. We were so bad, we didn't know we had to tune to each other, we just played. I'd been playing two weeks and we just started jammin'. I was like, yeah I'm in a real band"


-"I like it that people got to dig into our music to find out about something, because you know those kind of people are going to be the true fans. They are gonna be there because they love the music. When they come to the show, they're going to be the ones singing all the lyrics back, you know. You can tell they are feeling it like you're feeling it cause they got into it. They didn't just pop it on and they're going through the motions with you, you know. They know the song and they probably know the parts that you did on the song that you don't even do live because we're doing what we feel up there and they probably go, 'Woah, where did that come from?' They just play it over and over and over and they know every little sound and little audio nugget that we don't even remember putting on there."


"One time they held all our equipment hostage. We told them we'd give 'em $10 for being so cool and letting us practice there, and they just busted out and said 'You guys can't get your equipment 'till we get that ten bucks.' I'd go over there and my amps would be hooked up to the stereo."


"When we did the first record we did standard tuning for our whole lives, and I was like, I'm just tired of this damn standard tuning, and I changed it, I just dropped it down and D-tuned it. I was like, look you guys can play in standard if you want, I'm playing in this dropped tuning. We dont have discussions on what we wanna do, we force eachother to do what they dont want."


-"I never had a car, ever. I ride a bike when I get home. I ride the bus, get a ride from friends, or ride my bike or skate. I never owned my own car, never even thought about having my own car. I still don't to this day. I have no need for one. Maybe one day I'll get one."


-"One day im gonna take that fool out and his drums, he's gonna be like a set of bowling pins and I'm gonna be the ball I'm just gonna go charging straight at him, injury or not."


-"Our band's only moved by spirits of the liquid form."


-"I think I'm the Guy"


-"Dude, when my band is huge, I'm gonna have the show start with my guitar intro, but I won't be onstage and the crowd will be wondering where I am. Then, I'll come in from the back of the arena hanging from a cable above the crowd playing my guitar through a Nady wireless!"


-"I want a 900 number. I want to start a 900 sex service. Not with me in it, though."


          -Stephen Carpenter, Deftones, Guitar, 27. July, 1973