Our society’s sort of turning into a two-class system, where… most of the wealth and privileges are being concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people. And there’s the rest of us… that have to go out and work and struggle and live and die and try to find some happiness and contentment and security. John Rzeznik Read Quote
I’m one of those guys who always has that kind of underlying anxiety kind of always creeping around in the background. John Rzeznik Read Quote
It’s really weird how the rock world is quickly becoming like the jazz world. How if you do OK, or get a tiny bit of success, that’s considered a sellout, whether you did anything different or not. John Rzeznik Read Quote
Everybody was a democrat where we grew up. It was a blue-collar town and the democrats represented the working class and the unions. But very, very super-conservative Catholic, very proud immigrant community, very stoic. John Rzeznik Read Quote
If you go back and listen to the album ‘Name’ was on, there were a lot of garage songs on it. John Rzeznik Read Quote
I made a deadline for myself that if I wasn’t earning a living being a musician by ‘A Boy Named Goo,’ I was going to get back to school, get a degree, and go on with my life – and enjoy the memories I had. John Rzeznik Read Quote
Every day somebody comes up to me and says, ‘That song really helped me through a difficult time,’ or ‘That’s me and my wife’s song’ or ‘This song means something to me because of… ‘ It’s humbling to hear that. You’re something special in someone’s life, even if it is for three minutes. John Rzeznik Read Quote