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" I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry. "

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Talk

Want

Study

" Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged. "

" It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to. "

" I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just for fun. "

" I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work. "

Rivers Cuomo

Feel

Listening

" I guess I'm just a born performer or artist or sharer. I find the intimate details of my life compelling and interesting. I guess that I'm assuming that everyone else does, too. "

" 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've always thought of myself as so unsuited to be a frontman. "

" 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. "

" When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life. "

Rivers Cuomo

Life

Artist

" When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks. "

" With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity. "

Rivers Cuomo

Faith

Music

" I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring. "

" The most nerve-wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be doing 'Saturday Night Live' or 'David Letterman.' One of those shows. "

" I don't ever want anyone to think that I'm being judgmental. I gotta do everything I can do to not be preachy. "

" I've always seen myself as a grown-up. Since I was a little kid. "

" Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting. "

" Cat Stevens' music, voice, and energy made me feel so secure. He sounded different from some of the paternal figures in my life, so gentle and kind. "

Rivers Cuomo

Voice

Music

" I think I've been skeptical of violent passion for a long time. I think 'Pinkerton' is about that a lot - seeing how, every time I've felt really passionate for someone, as soon as I 'acquire' them or feel like I've acquired them, the passion goes away. "

" Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche. "

" I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time. "

" I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill. "

" What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay. "

" I can't imagine Weezer stopping. We just love doing what we're doing, and I think we'll keep going until we fall down dead. Even if the audience is abandoning us, I can't imagine doing anything else! "

" I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen. "

" Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole image and the makeup and all that. I was so out of touch with the wider world. "

" Now that I'm a father, I've forgiven my parents. "

" I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things. "

" 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. "

" New country music comprises about five percent of what I hear per year. I enjoy it, but I don't really take note of who's singing it or writing it. "