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

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.

...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.

We can't give a child a natural consequence. The only truly natural consequences are the ones found in nature.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

I think it's cool to come out of somewhere where you're being pushed into this mold and then you figure out in that who you are.

A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal.

Managing in a foreign country will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that doesn't come along that often

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!