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Name: Chico Moreno Band: Deftones Position Vocals Date Of Birth June 20, 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

-"Vodka and Gatorade. It's my all time favorite drink. It rejuvenates while it dehydrates."


-"I see boundaries more clearly now than I used to. I'm better at toying with people cerebrally than I was a few years ago. I'm better at fucking with your head."


-"Today I went to the record store and I bought DMX, which, I don't know, I just fuckin love it. That's one of the angriest mother-fuckers in hip-hop. Anybody with that much emotion, I just dig it, no matter what kind of music it is. Whether it be mad or sad or whatever. I dig somebody who can just let loose and just put-out like that."


-"I wrote this in the bathroom of the house where we stayed in teh Hollywood Hills while I was doing my vocals. We had this bathroom of the house that merged Abe's room and my room together, and we spent a lot of time just hanging out in the bathroom, staying up and partying all night. I came up with this scenario of luring a female friend down into the bath and electrocuting her. It's a beautiful song, but it does have a sinister side."


-"It's about meeting someone on the street that you haven'y seen in a long time and you really don't want to talk to them, but it's somebody that you are still infatuated with."


-"Sometimes i hear certain sounds and they make my dick really fucking hard"


-"That song was written while I was in Seattle recording the record. It was one of the last songs we wrote. I was completely burnt out. In the morning I was getting pissed off at everyone because I'd be up in the studio all night. I'd try and go in my bed, I'd go to sleep and the sun would keep waking me up and I would go outside and it would just hurt. So I went in the studio and it just kind of came out. I wrote a song kind of about Armageddon and basically the song says in my own summer there'd be no sun, nobody in the streets, nothing around. That's basically what the song is about. It's kind of an anti-sun song. It says cloud please come shove the sun aside, that's where shove it comes from."


-"Oh hell no. You gotta understand we watch skate videos and stuff, man. Those videos are straight insane compared to watching 'Survivor' and stuff like that."


-"I love bands that keep putting out records which always take the music ahead another step. That's the kind of band we hope to be."


-"I love rhythm. thats what i started out doing. when we started the band, I had a drum set and i brought it over to Stefens house and we started jamming. But I knew that Abe was one of the baddest drummers I'd ever seen, so i was kinda worried when we brought him over to Stefen's place."


-"Alot of people expect, you know, that this is going to be our record that's going to take us to where we need to go"


-"I'm fashionably uncircumcised. My sweater has a hood."


-"It's a Deftones record. It's got a little bit of everything. It's heavy, but it's not just all aggro and angry and angst music. It's got a lot of... girl in it. It's kind of sexy, I think."


-"I always masturbate when Im at home. Im like, You want some of this baby? and all spurt it all over her tits or something. Somehow it seems like a waste of paste."


-"I've got three, this is the first one I got [a sun on his wrist], I don't like it, but our bass player has it, and I got it. Actually, the sun is probably my biggest enemy, so I¹ll probably get it laser removed or cut off my arm. This one [a virgin Mary on his forearm] is the only one I like, I'm really into Catholic art. And I have a tattoo on my back with my name on it. I don't really like that either."


-"MTV can fucking bite my dick."


-"God made dirt so dirt won't hurt! You cant fuck with me...see ive been through Chile, Santiago muthafuckas will spit on you but see I'm a fucking man. I'm not a boy. I dont sit on stage complaining about my childhood cause who fucking cares? are you a fucking man are you a fuckin man, yeah dirt thrower, are you a fucking man?!"


-"Before we left for the Ozzfest, we were making more heavy stuff. And when we came back, everything started getting more feminine...I think maybe I got Satan-ed out on the tour or something like that."


-"Wake the FUCK UP! It's Saturday and tomorrow is God's day for those who believe, all my catholic brothers and sisters"


-"I think that one of the best things we have going for us is our dynamics, there's never too much of anything. It's not like there's a real heavy song and then a real soft song. Each of our songs contain many different levels."


-"It's so simple to look at every little thing I do wrong It's so simple to overlook every little thing I do right."


-"Honestly, I didn't want Back To School on the record. It was unfinished at the time, and I didn't want anything too hip-hop-oriented on the album."


-"Man, there'd be these chihuahuas runnin' around all ever the place, and we'd always have to give someone's car a jumpstart, or drive videos back to the store."


-"We wanted to detach ourselves from any label. Honestly, I don't think there's any band out there that does rap-metal correctly, except The Beastie Boys. The rest just seem silly to me"


-"I never seem to say what I want to say. Maybe thats because I have nothing to say."


-"There's another band which has come out. They're called Far. They're from my hometown too. They have a real hard edge. The singer has a really, really beautiful voice. He has a beautiful voice but he also screams, he mixes it up really well. They just got signed for a record that came out on Immortal. You should check that out."


-"Abe and I used to sit in class listening to Phallucy on my walkman and idolizing 'em, I'm not surprised he left."


-"If anyone really wants to know, check out the public access TV show 'Colin's Sleazy Friends' when we were on it, because Stephen pulled out his dick and started working that thing like bubblegum. I don't know what he was thinking. Tapioca pudding coming out of there and shit."


-"Some nights I'll just be laying in my bunk writing, just to state some things, whatever I'm feeing. I throw in my abstract ideas and then I'll put something very blunt in there, in the middle of everything. It sticks out more. I'm basically explaining something to you. A lot of people don't pay attention to lyrics, but the people that do,it's cool because they trip out on it. I like that a lot, it makes me feel good."


-"I want to continue to make records for as long as we can. And if they don't sell, it should be because of us, not because we were attached to this whole music scene and once it went down the drain, we went down the drain with it."


-"I got my eyebrow pierced before anybody had it, and then it started becoming cliché and I took it out. It's kinda like nowadays it's really normal and it kinda looks silly."


          -Chico Moreno, Deftones, Guitar & Vocals, June 20, 1973