Rivers Cuomo Quotes Page 3

“I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.”

“I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I’m really into it.”

“I need to schedule some unscheduled time in my schedule.”

“I never did any drugs or drank or even smoked a cigarette until I was in my twenties, which is extremely rare for American kids.”

“I never feel guilty about liking music.”

“I really don’t need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music – in fact, better music.”

“I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends… I just want to disappear and study.”

“I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration.”

“I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.”

“I thought I was creative until I had to make up a story for my 3 year old every night.”

“I try to give myself complete license to do whatever I want at any time regardless of how it affects other people and I think the benefits I gain artistically from living like that outweigh the costs of, all the problems that I have with society:meaning everyone hating me.”

“I wish everybody had a 140 character limit when they're talking to me in real life.”

“I wish I could have been my own parent.”

“I won't always tell you what you want to hear, but I'll always tell you a version of the truth.”

“I wonder if I'll die with my glasses on.”

“I wouldn’t say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it’s a nice surprise.”

“I'd wager my diet is very similar to a chimpanzee's.”

“I'm a galaxy. I'm a universe. You're just a star.”

“I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.”

“I'm getting really good at inventing parent/child games that involve me lying down, doing nothing.”

“I've been getting bad reviews since the day I was born.”

“I've sold two million records, I've toured around the world singing in front of thousands of people. And there's a girl sitting across from me in English 101, and I just look up at her every once in a while and put my head back down. I'm still a pathetic fool. No matter how many records I sell, I'm never going to be in Kiss.”

“I've tried all different kinds of ways of living and I've discovered that this is the most conducive to creativity, acting on whim regardless of consequences. Occasionally, I'll have pangs of conscience but I try to overcome them. To me that's a small price to pay.”

“I’ve always seen myself as a grown-up. Since I was a little kid.”

“If I say I have a 'scientific' approach to songwriting, people get bummed.”

“If Juliana Hatfield married James Hetfield would she take his name or insist on keeping her own?”

“If metal bands could spell: Lead Zeppelin, Motley Crew, Queen's Reich, Deaf Leopard, Deaftones, Crocus, Striper, Limp Biscuit, Corn, ...”

“If you can't take rejection, you're not going to get very far in life.”

“If you have an original thought, don't google it, because you'll probably find that somebody else already came up with it.”

“If you move incredibly slowly, you can avoid a lot of life's aches and pains.”