I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.

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.

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.

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.

I never feel guilty about liking music.

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

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.

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.

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.

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."

Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.

Price and Cost. Sometimes we pay more. Sometimes we pay less. You've got to determine what you are willing to pay for success.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.

I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.