Deftones frontman Chino Moreno has addressed how his sobriety has affected his approach to songwriting for the band’s new album Private Music.<\/p>\n
In a new interview with Revolver<\/a>, the singer explained the song my mind is a mountain was initially inspired by the title of a children’s self-help book he hadn’t actually read, but when he finally did check it out it turned out to be extremely relevant to some of his own mental health struggles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “The book was actually written for kids to teach them about their emotions and how there\u2019s ups and downs, and it\u2019s OK to have emotions \u2014 which is something that I\u2019ve been working on as I entered into sobriety a few years ago,” he explains.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n “I started taking these classes and one of the classes was teaching you that it\u2019s the most natural thing to have spikes and emo\u00adtions in all directions. It\u2019s all about learning how to deal with them and then being empowered by that as opposed to just being a victim of that.”<\/p>\n Revolver then ask if he feels he’s in a healthier place than he had been previously.<\/p>\n “Most definitely,” he responds. “As far as like mental health stuff, there\u2019s no fix. You don\u2019t go to therapy once and they tell you how to not feel a certain way. You\u2019ve still got to work through stuff, but doing it with a clear head definitely is like, whoa, it\u2019s a game changer. It\u2019s one of those things where you just say, ‘Why didn\u2019t I try this a long time ago?'”<\/p>\n Moreno has previously spoken to Hammer about his decision to quit drinking<\/a>, having now been sober for three years.<\/p>\n “I was having a bad day,” he explains. “So I went down into the garage, and I have a little fridge in there with beers in it, and I cracked a beer, and I sat on an ice chest, and my wife walked in. She\u2019s like, \u2018What are you doing?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018I can\u2019t handle this, whatever.\u2019 So what am I doing? I\u2019m opening a beer because I can\u2019t handle this. So I was like, \u2018Oh, well, that\u2019s pretty telling right there, right?\u2019 So, the very next day, I was like, \u2018Alright. I\u2019m going to try to make a change.\u2019”<\/p>\n Deftones released their tenth studio album private music<\/a> in August. The album peaked at number 5 in the US, marking their seventh album to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200. The band will host the sixth edition of their Dia De Los Deftones festival this weekend in San Diego and embark on a full arena tour of Europe and the UK early next year. For the full list of dates, visit their official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deftones frontman Chino Moreno has addressed how his sobriety has affected his approach to songwriting for the band’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-232598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}