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I never feel guilty about liking music.
Now that I'm a father, I've forgiven my parents.
I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.
I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.
'Easy' is not a word I would ever use to describe touring.
I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.
I've always seen myself as a grown-up. Since I was a little kid.
Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting.
What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.
People think I'm a freak or something, but I'm actually a really normal guy.
Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.
Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.
The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill.
It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.
Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically.
I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.
Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.
When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.
I don't ever want anyone to think that I'm being judgmental. I gotta do everything I can do to not be preachy.
I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.
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.
I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.
If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough."
I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.
It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.
The bonds you make with those records when you're 14, 15 and 16, they'll never be broken, and nothing will ever be as strong as that.
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.
Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.
With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I'm going to keep moving forward.
Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.
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.
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.
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.
I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!
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.
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.
I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.
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.
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.
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.
I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.
I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.
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.
Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole image and the makeup and all that. I was so out of touch with the wider world.
I guess I'm just a born performer or artist or sharer. I find the intimate details of my life compelling and interesting. I guess that I'm assuming that everyone else does, too.
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.
I've done a few things on the side here and there, but there is not much reason to do so in a sustained way. I'm generally able to say what I want to say within the context of Weezer.
I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.
I can't imagine Weezer stopping. We just love doing what we're doing, and I think we'll keep going until we fall down dead. Even if the audience is abandoning us, I can't imagine doing anything else!
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.