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
good music
I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.
hours love meditate
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.
music songs treadmill
I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.
including input kinds listeners steer
I like to get input from all different kinds of listeners, including the really conservative ones, and sometimes those listeners steer me in a direction that I haven't seen. But at the end of the day, my vote is always to go in the direction that makes me the most excited.
best
Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting.
people
People think I'm a freak or something, but I'm actually a really normal guy.
disappear
I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.
business eighties engineers found generation kids large matter metal music people suits tends whether
I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent.
bring equipped happiness people permanent stage totally trying
I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible.
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.
basically counter figure life means myth rock starting took trial work
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.
best critical
What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.
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.
Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.