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"Imagine this: sitting in a record company having to defend yourself for only selling one million copies," [Robby Takac] says. "I couldn't believe I had that conversation. 'Really guys, what do you expect? You've got to recognize phenomena. If you win the lottery once you can't be disappointed if you don't win it again.'"
"I'm sure some dude is sitting around his messy apartment in his Doc Martens, red suspenders and shaved head all pissed off at us (for mellowing out)," he says. "I was 20 years old then, I just turned 40-something. If the band doesn't change and become what we want to be as people, if it doesn't follow that, there's no point. The reason we're doing this is because it's what we want to be doing.""[John Rzeznik]'s on a quest I don't know if he'll ever be able to finish or succeed. That's part of being John," Takac says. "He's constantly striving for that next thing and finds it difficult to stay content in the moment. For us, it's important to be one step forward and within what we believe this thing is.See the full content of this document
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Cover / Grown-Up Goo Goos
DOROTHY knew it and now the Goo Goo Dolls do, too: there's no place like home.
Eight years after leaving Buffalo for the sunnier climes of Los Angeles, the adult-contemporary trio was forced to move back home to find inspiration and get away from record industry moguls to make its new album, Let Lov...See the full content of this document
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