Rivers Cuomo Quotes

If you'd asked me when I was six, 16, and 26, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, recognized rock star. Especially when I was six and 16, because I thought that if I was a known guitar player in a known band, only cute girls would talk to me.

I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.

I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star.

I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.

You can't buy being a rock star.

I wanted girls to scream at me. I wanted to be a rock star.

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money.

I think being a rock star is a little bit different than being an athlete or even a movie star.

I never thought I'd be a, quote, 'rock & roll star.'

Being a rock star rocks.

Initially, the best thing about being in L.A. was the girls - they loved me. It was like being a pop star.

I always thought: 'Oh my God, we are going to be famous, we're going to be huge.' We were 21, 22 years old.

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

I'd love to be a rockstar.