John Rzeznik, songwriter and lead singer of the Goo Goo Dolls, founded the band in 1986 with Robby Takac. The Goo Goo Dolls’s long-term success kicked off in 1998 with the release of the song “Iris,” written by Rzeznik. With the recent release of “Something for the Rest of Us,” Rzeznik commented, “I wanted some of the material on this album to address the disillusionment of the difficult period we live in; I wanted to give a voice to the emotional uncertainty that accompanies hard times. So many people are struggling to keep it together through tough economic conditions and two wars that seem