Favorite Quotes


"Sleep has held me by my hand
And promised me it'd set me free..." -Goo Goo Dolls, I'm Awake Now

"You choke down all your anger
Forget your only son
You pray to statues when you sober up for fun" -Goo Goo Dolls, Broadway

"They painted up your secrets
With the lies they told to you
And the least they ever gave you
Was the most you ever knew" and
"And I've tried so hard to reach you
But you're fallin' anyway
And ya know I see right through you
Cause the world gets in your way
What's the point in all this screaming
You're not listening anyway" -Goo Goo Dolls, Acoustic #3

"You beat your head upon your wall
You disconnect yourself from it all
Cause ya know that you're so beautiful and so untouchable
And I wanna get in so bad but I don't know how
No I don't know how"-Goo Goo Dolls, Cuz You're Gone

"You drown in deeper oceans
Inventing new religions
They smile and stab my back and
I lie and have to laugh" -Goo Goo Dolls, All Eyes On Me

"And now we're grown up orphans that never knew their names
We don't belong to no one that's a shame
You could hide beside me, maybe for a while
And I won't tell no one your name" -Goo Goo Dolls, Name

"He [Robby Takac] held my head when I threw up in the toilet. He took me to the hospital to have my stomach pumped. He loaned me twenty bucks last night. He listens to all my lies and ignores me when I'm full of shit. And that's a big difference, if you know what I mean."~John Rzeznik--Roseland Ballroom-11/13/98

"When we played a show with Jewel and she was standing on the side of the stage watching us, and the three of us each started playing a different song. I turned around and she was gone. There goes my shot with Jewel." -John Rzeznik on his most embarassing moment

"That comes from drunken stupidity and being young. Yeah, what a bad name. What a stupid name for a band. I'm convinced we would have sold millions of records if we'd have had a different name." John Rzeznik on the name of the band, the Goo Goo Dolls

"When I was 18, there were 50 people that I called my friends. Today, there are only three, but I'm glad to have those three. If you have three people that you can really call your friends, then you truly have it made." -John Rzeznik

"If I could paint harmony and colors were words I had sung
If I could climb way up in the sky where the stars are carefully hung
There are flowers in her backyard that resemble the spots of the sun
And there are times I look in her eyes and see the woman and God as one." -Hold Me Up Album, Goo Goo Dolls