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-{{Featured quote code 3|headline=An example of {{PN|Rivers Cuomo}} negotiation tactics, pre-''[[Maladroit]]''.|image=[[Image:Emptylogo.png|100px|link= ]]|article=[[LA Times interview with Weezer - May 21, 1995|an ''LA Times'' interview from May 1993]]|quote=
+{{Featured quote code|[[Rivers Cuomo]] on the writing of "[[Longtime Sunshine]]," in 2008|Rivers Cuomo|In the midst of struggling to make it as a rock star in Los Angeles, I started longing for the safety, peace, quiet, simplicity, and family structure of my New England childhood.  I thought back to one of my favorite memories, lying in the bottom bunk, my brother in the top, in our bedroom in our farmhouse in Eastford, Connecticut, in the hot, hot, summer, 7, 8 p.m., sun still up, but having to go to sleep because it's our bedtime, one of those big box fans blowing, and my parents, Ma and Steve, sitting at our bedside, singing an old hippie song to us, to calm us down and ease us into sleep, "May the Longtime Sun Shine Upon You."
-Even [[Geffen Records]] at first passed on Weezer but eventually found itself the only major label still interested in the group. Negotiations also suddenly turned strange when the cleanshaven Cuomo showed up at the label’s offices one day wearing a thick, Marlboro Man mustache.
-“I like to disturb people with my image,” Cuomo says. “That was really strange. I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror. When I went in to meet with Geffen about the album cover, I told the art director all four of us were going to have these mustaches. She was really upset and disturbed. From then on we had to work with another art director."|person=Steve Appleford|source=[[LA Times interview with Weezer - May 21, 1995]]|sourcelink=[[LA Times interview with Weezer - May 21, 1995|see full article]]}}
+I borrowed the hook phrase from this song and set about writing my own song to capture my feelings of loss and longing. I wrote it on my mom's piano when I was back in Connecticut at Christmas. My mom had a piano because I told her that the house seemed too quiet and I was worried about her living in silence, all alone after my step-dad left. So that is how "Longtime Sunshine" came to exist.
+When I recorded this track, I had just bought a clarinet and figured out how to play a few notes. Because of my poor embouchure it sounds very much like a kazoo.|[[Alone liner notes|''Alone I'' liner notes]]|[[Alone liner notes|see full transcript]]}}
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