Rivers Cuomo Quotes

Sometimes people come up to me and say, 'You were my teen crush.' I'm honored and I'm touched, but I also ask, 'What happened? Why'd you take the poster down?' I get a little heartbroken in that situation.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

To be famous and broke is hard.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

Girls don't really recognize me on the street. No one has tried to serenade me or rip my shirt off.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right.

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

I didn't really have much luck with women when I was younger, so on some level, I feel like I don't really belong.

People sometimes come up to me, and it's like they just want to capture Passenger. I feel like Pikachu. Sometimes, in the more sort of depressing moments, it feels like it's not about the music, it's just about the photo, and that really worries me.

When you're a teenager, a year can be crippling to maneuver through. Some things happen when you're like 13. All of a sudden you go from being this really confident, no-worry little kid to having all these weird insecurities for no reason.

I don't win anything in life, you know what I mean? I was, like, the awkward kid who didn't go to prom, but I did - nobody noticed, though.

Chimere's not mine. That hurt 'cause I had attached myself to this guy, you know. This is my son. I'm looking at him, and I'm picturing I'm gonna be old, and he's gonna be - this is my son! It's not my son.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.

I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.

I don't like to think of anyone waking up every morning amazed that things haven't gone their way in life.