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 Read Quote
When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star… I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
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. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
It’s great – that’s the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
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. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
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. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration. Concentration and flow is what it’s all about. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
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. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
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. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana’s music. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. Including my own. Rivers Cuomo Read Quote
