Rivers Cuomo Quotes

I don't know what else I would have done, because I love music too much.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I'm an obsessive music fan, I'm always seeking out new sonic thrills.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.

I still love music - that's never gonna go away.

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.

I listen to music all day every day. I can't not listen to music. It's kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it's what I love, and it's all I care about, so I'm good with it.

I have a huge love for music and always have.

When they're listening to your music all the time, you become part of their life, and some people get obsessed.

I am a huge fan of Nirvana and always will be.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

If it's music, I love it.

I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.

When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.

I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.

It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

I think that music is a lifestyle that you sort of intravenously plug into and unplug from when you do and don't need it. Some people live it 10 hours a day, some on weekends. It's no more important or non-important than that.

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.