It has been 25 years since the “Blue Album” was released, and Weezer is having a resurgence. Your album “Pacific Daydream” is nominated for a Grammy this year; you just released the “Teal Album,” and the “Black Album” is coming out in March. Most important, your cover of Toto’s “Africa” hit more than 25 million streams on Spotify. Well, that started with a 14-year-old girl in Ohio who spammed us every day requesting us to cover Toto’s “Africa.” We let it play out for a few months and decided to release Toto’s “Rosanna.” Then, a week later, we put out “Africa.”

Do you get tired of playing, say, your old hit “Buddy Holly” all the time? We’ve played well over a thousand shows, and it’s all about feeling the audience’s excitement, and it’s just so addictive. Standing up there and playing a lick or singing a hook is just like putting a question out into the universe: “Am I worth something? Am I good? Am I cool?” And you just want to hear this roar of affirmation: “Yes, Rivers, you rock.” It’s such an intense craving for me that I’ll do whatever it takes to get it, even if it means playing “Buddy Holly” for the 2,000th time.

You’ve been a rock star for decades now. Do you think you’ll always want to keep answering that question? Yeah, until I kick the addiction. It’s like any drug. You can’t just say, “Well, you’ve been shooting heroin for 25 years by now, you think you’d just feel good all the time,” right?