Rivers Cuomo Quotes

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am.

People thought I looked weird, that I talked weird.

I kind of want everyone to think I'm a crazy person.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

People might think I'm a bit more intimidating than I am.

It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

Some people see me as someone who makes other people look bad... I often get a feeling most people don't know who I am, or have a clue, and I live with that. I don't try to prove anything by talking.

I think I have a deep-seated fear of being misunderstood. Or being misjudged.

A lot of the time, people think I have a high opinion of myself when I really don't.

I don't know what people think of me.

The last thing I want to think of myself as is anything different.

It's weird to me for people to stare at me, because I feel like I'm normal. I don't see what there is to stare about.

Many times, people would react to the fact that I looked different, and I would think that there was something wrong with me - that maybe one of my shirt buttons was undone or something. It took 20 or 30 years to get used to it.

I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy.

I want to show people that I'm not what everybody thought I was.

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

I feel like I'm extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that's a bit out of proportion. I guess that's why some people see me as strange.