158 Quotes by John Rzeznik

I feel a whole lot of gratitude for having hits.

One of the things about live music that's so incredibly important and can't be replaced and automated is the common focus of a room full of people having that human contact and being immersed in the sensory overload of a rock concert.

I'm ashamed to say, but as a teen, there were times when I had to go to the church and get help.

I've written songs everywhere, and I think the place does matter.

I have this dreadful image of me driving down Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, with the windows rolled down, and our song comes on... and I'm sitting there listening to it and some guy pulls up next to me and thinks, 'Hey, it's that guy from the Goo Goo Dolls... he's listening to his own music. What a jerk!'

I'm not trying to chase a radio hit, but at a certain time, you can't make the same album over and over.

A little renovation and reinvention is a positive thing.

I was a bartender, a hot-dog vendor, a cook, sold magazine subscriptions.

Usually albums are frontloaded with singles.