So born and raised in Buffalo, New York, John Resnick is the founding member frontman and

guitarist for iconic band The Goo Goo Dolls.

He's kind of a legend in the world of music, with 19 top 10 singles, including mega hits,

like Iris, which spent 12 months on the Billboard charts, named Black Balloon and countless

others, and like so many he turned to music at a young age as both a way to cope with discord

and a form of expression, he has lived a life of extraordinary artistry and contribution,

and along with that, a certain amount of darkness and struggle that for many years found

him turning to alcohol as a way to get through each day, until it all fell apart and he

had to make a decision when he keeps making every single day.

Now sober, a devoted dad and husband, he's telling a really new story with his life and

music, and taking the giant global community of Goo Goo Dolls fans along for the journey.

And as you'll hear on conversation, as we spoke, he was heading into the studio to create

something new, something that is truly representative, not just of this moment in time, but also

of how his own personal lens on life and music and creativity have evolved in really major

and profound ways, so excited to share this conversation with you.

I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project.

It was fun reading that little bit that you shared just in info with us before that

you've been geeking out a bit on Dalton Trumbo and it's like the blacklist era stuff.

It was funny because when I read that Dalton Trumbo's his book Johnny Got It Gone.

I think I read in high school and it blew my mind.

It absolutely shattered me in these really weird ways and it's never left me.

Yeah, no, it's really...

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