For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like "My brains are falling out of my ears; would someone please pull me together?" � Robby Takac
"I'm trying to picture some little girl whose favorite bands are like Goo Goo Dolls and Savage Garden or 'N Sync going 'aw, that Johnny is so cute. I'm going to buy all his early records,' and putting it on and then screaming and running to her parents." � Robby Takac
"I believe in anything that causes mass hysteria in children." � Robby Takac on Pokemon
"The way he writes, the way he feels about this band... He kills himself, man. I've never seen anyone put so much emotion into anything. When he's writing a song, veins are popping out of his head. It's really painful." � Robby talking about John
"Playing new music, in front of people who've never heard it before? You might as well just take a crap onstage. People just look at you like, 'What the hell?'" � Robby Takac
�We�ve been on the fringe of being cool forever and there�s something endearing about that.� � Robby Takac
"All you can do is do what you're doing and keep asking yourself, 'Is this a) What I want to be doing, and b) Do I look like an idiot doing it?' If the answer to both questions is correct, on you go." � Robby Takac
"I write about things that tear me apart, and it's all very personal to me. It's funny to hear people disassemble the lyrics. If they get it wrong, it almost means more to me, because it's morphed into something that is meaningful to them." � Robby Takac
"It was as if the dentist reached in through your ass to rip out your wisdom teeth." � Robby about their tour with Bush
"There are a lot of bands who go out and make a demo at 18, get signed, sell 4 million records, and then don't know enough to bring themselves back down to earth. You've gotta bring yourself down, because, dude, at 19, that is not your life. Someone gave you that life for a little while. You're 19 years old and you're gonna be spit out so fast. You're not royalty; you're just some schmuck. Your job is as important as the guy taking the tickets in front of the building. When it comes right down to it, you're just part of the process." � phone interview with Robby http://www.timmcmahan.com/googoodolls.htm
"If people say, 'I can connect with this,' or 'This makes me feel a certain way,' then that is the most important thing and coolest because you've affected someone's life." � Robby Takac
"Remember to smile every day, no matter what." � Robby Takac
"There's probably some 35-year-old in a Black Flag shirt really pissed off at us somewhere right now." � Robby Takac
"I don't know who told you that! Playing live is definitely not better than sex." � Robby Takac
"[more recently acquired fans] look at us like, 'Is there something wrong with their equipment?' It cracks me up." � Robby Takac (reactions to older material at concerts)
"It�s great. We get all these secretaries out to our show expecting a bunch of soft ballads, and we send them home with their ears bleeding." � Robby Takac
"I don't feel like a musician - I feel like a kid with a guitar." � Robby Takac
"I don't think I've weeped so much since, like, Born Free. It's bad, man." on seeing "City of Angels" � Robby Takac
