Interviewer: Wasn't Chino ever influenced by people when he was growing up?
Chino: l looked up to a lot of people, but they were people who impressed me with the way they lived their lives. l was a huge Morrissey fan [The Smiths], but I'm not into the, "Oh, I'm so depressed" thing. l liked the way he works and what he says. You can look up to someone, and don't have to mock yourself and be like them.
It's the same with Robert Smith [The Cure]. It was more of a writing thing. It's a difference between being infatuated by someone you like and the things they do, or being infatuated with someone for their whole person. Morrissey's a bit more; he's a very hard individual to figure out, and that's what intrigued me. To this day, l don't know the person he is. It's interesting, he'll throw you through a loop, he'll let you into his weird perceptions, then all of a sudden he'll shock you with one blunt thing that comes out in one sentence and you think, "What the fuck, that's the introvert in me that l like"