I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.

I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.

With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I'm going to keep moving forward.

It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.

I never feel guilty about liking music.

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough."

Miley Cyrus' 'Party in the USA' kills me with jealousy. The melodies are out-of-control beautiful.

I dream like a dew drop in the nightThen glitter in the morning sunlightThen it evaporates to embrace the sky

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

You learn to smile even in you liver?''Even in my lire, Ketut. Big smile in my liver.

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.