Rivers Cuomo Quotes

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.

We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.

I still love 'The Cure' more than almost any other band. But they were really, truly like the first band that I really loved and felt was mine, you know. At a pivotal time in my life when I was 13, 14 years old.

I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.

I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.

It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.

I had collages in my bedroom when I was a teenager.

With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

I first got into punk music at 17, The Adverts, just from being a bored teenager.

I was really into Britney Spears when I was little.

I must have been about 13 when I first heard Linkin Park and, to be honest, music had never played that much of a part in my life to that point.

I went to high school in Orange County.

I grew up when Chris Brown was, like, an icon. He was my ringtone when I was in high school.

I'm probably going to be ashamed to say this... It was a Sir Mix-a-Lot album. I think I was 12, 13. I had just enough money for the 'My Posse's on Broadway' single, so I bought that single. That was the first thing I bought with my own money.

if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't; they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.