I read that meditation was helping him [Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo] get in touch with his inner songwriter
That's how we became friends
Luke was like, 'Do you realize that we're a pussy pop band?' and they were like, 'Yeah, it's OK.'
I don't think people got the weird chord changes and structures ... It was sort of a musician's band, except we're not that prolific. It was like half-prog, and no one cared.
I thought it was nice that they chose that name and not 'Dog Poop Area.'
It was kind of awful sometimes ... We needed to stop playing crappy metal riffs and write songs that people besides just us would like.
Craigslist is a pile of shit
That's an example of the old-school spirit ... It's an insane hardcore band, and they want us to open.
It was like, 'Dude, you like Weezer? Me, too!' All the great bands outside of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin that we listen to are great '90s bands.
All these bands that were on Warped Tour would be like, 'I'll give you $100 to tune my drums,' ... It took longer to walk over to the stage than to tune some kid's shitty-ass drums.