John Rzeznik

If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow…

— John Rzeznik

Everybody was a democrat where we grew up. It was a blue-collar town and the democrats represented the working class and the…

— John Rzeznik

Yes, we started out as the Sex Maggots, then became the Goo Goo Dolls, well, and we're still the Goo Goo Dolls!

— John Rzeznik

I never underestimate luck and working hard.

— John Rzeznik

I'm one of these guys who always feel like the outsider, you know? I'm always longing to be part of something, you…

— John Rzeznik

So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.

— John Rzeznik

I didn't think about having kids until like I was 48, 49 years old.

— John Rzeznik

I wasn't present for my own life for a long time. I wasn't there; I wasn't in my relationships; I wasn't in…

— John Rzeznik

I've taken a lot of crap. That's just the way life is. There are going to be writers who like you and…

— John Rzeznik

We're doing everything we can to help bands from Buffalo.

— John Rzeznik

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

— John Rzeznik

I went to a vocational high school, which is where they basically train you to go out and dig ditches. You gotta…

— John Rzeznik

Punk was key to the early part of me playing guitar. I was really into melodic punk-rock. I related to punk more…

— John Rzeznik

You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.

— John Rzeznik

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

— John Rzeznik

I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it…

— John Rzeznik

As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you.

— John Rzeznik

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

— John Rzeznik

I have a very powerful form of alcoholism. I finally gave up and accepted the fact that if I even smell too…

— John Rzeznik

I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear.

— John Rzeznik

Our society's sort of turning into a two-class system, where... most of the wealth and privileges are being concentrated into the hands…

— John Rzeznik

I really love Tegan and Sara.

— John Rzeznik

You can hate my band, I really don't care what your opinion is.

— John Rzeznik

I don't write a lot of fiction.

— John Rzeznik

I feel a whole lot of gratitude for having hits.

— John Rzeznik