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 Read Quote
I don’t ever want anyone to think that I’m being judgmental. I gotta do everything I can do to not be preachy. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
I just gotta keep reminding myself: Every time I do an interview or something, my volition really has to be just to serve, to help people. Not to feel like I’m important. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
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. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
I always loved the ‘L.A. Weekly.’ I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us! Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I’m going to keep moving forward. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
The bonds you make with those records when you’re 14, 15 and 16, they’ll never be broken, and nothing will ever be as strong as that. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
Most people don’t really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
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. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
