John Rzeznik Quotes

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.

I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.

Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

I choose to open my arms to all the good that life has in store for me.

Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that somebody's getting more money than you are, but what's really annoying is if someone's painting a better painting than you're making. So it's something to think about and work toward and stay focused on.

If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.

Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

I've got my advanced scuba diving license. I'm playing tennis and exercising. I ride my bike everywhere. I've been finding new things. I've been more creative in music and doing different videos. And just meeting different people and being around and present. I'm wonderful when I'm just on nothing.

My goal is to generate more material for myself.

Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well.