Matt Sharp

“I love the idea of limitations. It forces you to be more creative.”

“It's always been about trying to do something that's not been done before.”

“For me, the idea of a band is that it's a team, and that's the part I always loved about it.”

“I just always wanted to be in a band where we were all on the same page, pushing in the same direction.”

“The Rentals was always about this sort of lonely, disconnected feeling, but with a sense of optimism.”

“I think that synthesizer sounds can be incredibly emotional if you use them in the right way.”

“With Weezer, it was a very specific four-headed monster, and that was its strength.”

“I don't look back on it with any bitterness at all. It was an amazing part of my life.”

“The whole idea was to make something that was very simple and very direct and emotionally pure.”

“Sometimes the things that are most personal can become the most universal.”