Rivers Cuomo
Rivers Cuomo
Rivers Cuomois an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist, lead guitarist and songwriter of the alternative rock band Weezer, with whom he has recorded eleven studio albums...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth13 June 1970
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
enjoy expect good nice pessimism relax
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.
music songs treadmill
I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.
celibacy decided heard help meditation music tried
I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.
boys early huge records
Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically.
fixated time
I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.
cake skills pieces
The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake.
guilty feels
I never feel guilty about liking music.
records labels band
It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.
agreement records want
The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we're still bound by an agreement with them not to release our music without their consent. But they generally let us do what we want, anyway, so it doesn't matter who's officially in control.
listening albums youth
I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.
song writing imagination
Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.
Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.
changed easier faith flow meditating music purely scientific watched
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.
album commit finishing happen nice putting quote reasons together
When we were putting the album together and finishing up the artwork, I didn't know what was going to happen in the future, and I told everyone that. I told them, 'Let's commit to this year, and see what happens,' ... And that was one of the reasons why I put that quote in there, because I thought it's a really nice way to say goodbye, if it is a goodbye.