

Not just to keep you relevant, but to keep you sane, creative, and humble.” “When you’ve been doing this as long as I have, you need outside input. “I’ve been doing that for years and it would have resulted in the same old shit,” he says. So when it came time to think about making a new Goo Goo Dolls album, Rzeznik realized that he didn’t want to sit in a room by himself and try to write songs. And it dawned on me that that's what you always have to do.

He totally reinvented himself every time. “I was listening to a lot of David Bowie and thinking about how he went from writing ‘Scary Monsters’ to ‘Let’s Dance’ and what an insane, radical change that was.

Last year, Goo Goo Dolls singer and guitarist John Rzeznik was thinking a lot about change.
