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
music songs treadmill
I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.
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.
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.
gotta reminding time volition
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.
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.
cat figures gentle life music
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.
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.
fear life meditation separated work
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.
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.
song writing caring
I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work through; if I don't have something like that at the root of the song, then I think I end up not caring about it as much. I gravitate towards some kind of concept or idea or situation that I want to write about. Very often I have to write, rewrite and come at it from an opposite angle...and I end up writing the opposite song that I thought I was going to write.
emo rap interest
I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.
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.