Chino Moreno Quotes

The Sekrets record is very much me, and Dan's Emergency Room is very much him. And then Alkaline Trio is very much ours.

I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn't want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again.

With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.

I actually have two songs I did with Nicki Minaj. We didn't even plan on doing it that way, but it was an organic connection and just a really solid connection she and I had musically.

I don't really have a dream collaboration.

I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.

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

Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her.

I would love to collaborate with Chance the Rapper. I love his lyrics and his sound and everything.

'Sorry' just fit the bill for the crossover that both Lost Stories and I were attempting to do musically.

If I could collaborate with any artist, I would want it to be like Marvin Gaye. Someone like who they wouldn't expect me to do a feature with, like, very iconic.

Working with Kano is cool, too: obviously, he's from the same scene, but we've never worked together on a track before, and where, like, better to do it than on a Gorillaz project?

It's fun for musicians to step into each other's world. It's like different football teams - it's the same game but a different play.

I'd like to produce something with Kanye. Like, my production plus his, I think he'd make something really cool.

I would love to collaborate with Hariharan Sir.

I instinctively felt Pancham and Gulzarbhai were meant to make music together.

You can always get something cool out of a collaboration - you can always have a moment - but meeting someone that you want to collaborate with continuously, that's a different thing.

So much of inspiration comes from collaboration with other musicians.

I don't love collabs just for the sake of collaborating. It has to be purposeful and it needs to sonically make sense.

Me and Kanye work awesome together. He's a creative man, I'm a creative man, we put our ideas together, it's like the perfect formula.

It's interesting to see what people who you find talented come up with, so you work with them. Sometimes ideas come along quicker cause they'll come up with something and you'll be like, "It would have taken me forever to get to that point!" Because you're talking together, your brains are moving faster.

He [Timbaland] meshes well with a lot of great people, like he meshes well with Timberlake, Missy Elliott, Nelly Furtado. I'm hoping I'm another one that he meshes well with, because it could be really genius.

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.