7 Quotes & Sayings By Rivers Cuomo

Rivers Harry Cuomo III is an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and author. He is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and primary songwriter for the American punk rock band Weezer. After signing with Geffen Records in 1994, Weezer released their debut self-titled album in 1996. Since then, they have released nine more studio albums: Pinkerton (1996), Weezer (1996), The Green Album (2001), Maladroit (2002), Make Believe (2005), Raditude (2008), Everything Will Be Alright in the End (2010), and Weezer (2014) Read more

Cuomo also contributed vocals to Deftones' 2008 album Saturday Night Wrist.

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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
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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
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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. Rivers Cuomo
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Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful. Rivers Cuomo
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Most of the songs I write are 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. Rivers Cuomo
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I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retreat. And overall, I just feel more comfortable in my own skin and less anxious, less sad, less fearful. Rivers Cuomo