Quotes

Your brain is always searching for reasons to doubt yourself; I'm pretty experienced with that.

I love getting older, though. I just feel like I have more control over the universe -- or my small corner of it, at least.

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. Instead I found myself in the dead of winter in Boston with a long beard, no friends and a bum leg. It was pretty disillusioning...

I've sold two million records, I've toured around the world singing in front of thousands of people. And there's a girl sitting across from me in English 101, and I just look up at her every once in a while and put my head back down. I'm still a pathetic fool. No matter how many records I sell, I'm never going to be in Kiss.

I consider myself a normal person in extraordinary, abnormal circumstances. I think if anyone were in my position they would end up acting like I do.

[What do you do for fun besides playing music?] Nothing.

It [commune-style hippie parenting] had the ironic effect of making my brother and me completely straightlaced growing up. I never did any drugs or drank or even smoked a cigarette until I was in my twenties, which is extremely rare for American kids.

Yeah, I've tried all different kinds of ways of living and I've discovered that this is the most conducive to creativity, acting on whim regardless of consequences. [With no consideration for other people?] No. Occasionally, I'll have pangs of conscience but I try to overcome them. To me that's a small price to pay.

Well, I try to give myself complete license to do whatever I want at any time regardless of how it affects other people and ... I think the benefits I gain artistically from living like that outweigh the costs of, um, all the problems that I have with society [meaning] everyone hating me.

Playing arenas is where it's at. I want to conquer far and wide in the name of Weezer.

I hardly ever have caffeine. I tweak naturally.

Weezer came up at a time when Jane's Addiction released Nothing's Shocking - everyone was trying to be controversial. We looked back to rock and roll's pre-drug days - to the clean images of the Beach Boys - that felt, ironically, rebellious.

[2001, on "Pinkerton"] It's a hideous record... It was such a hugely painful mistake that happened in front of hundreds of thousands of people and continues to happen on a grander and grander scale and just won't go away. It's like getting really drunk at a party and spilling your guts in front of everyone and feeling incredibly great and cathartic about it, and then waking up the next morning and realizing what a complete fool you made of yourself.

[August 1997]This has been a tough year. It's not just that the world has said Pinkerton isn't worth a shit, but that the Blue album wasn't either. It was a fluke. It was the ["Buddy Holly"] video. I'm a shitty songwriter.

[first hinting at the Black Album in April 2016, shortly after the band released their tenth album Weezer (The White Album)] What could stand out more against 'White' than 'Black'? I think it's going to maybe be like Beach Boys gone bad. I'm thinking of swearing, which is something I've never done in songs.