| Daniel Johns Kwotes"Think what you want. This is what we are."---Rolling Stone Magazine "My own vegetable soup. Or pasta. I make a mean veggie soup. It's the best. I just chuck everything in - every veggie, every spice. It's beautiful. I've been a veggie for about a year. I was kind of going off meat anyway, but a year ago I decided I wasn't eating it any more. I saw too many bad things on telly. As long as there's fruit on the tour rider, I'm happy. I can eat fruit all day."---Daniel on if he had a last meal, what would it be. From Kerrang magazine June 21st, 1997 "We purposely haven't done very much TV stuff because we just want to play music and let the music do the talking really, and all that media crap that goes on is nothing to us." "We are kind of a retro funk band as well, get into a bit of James Brown, stuff like that." "They were old rockers..." Talking about his parents. - "We don't write on the road ever. We like to focus on the playing and that's it." - "He's (Ben) start playing this funky beat and I'd start rapping and we were just a two piece rap band." "I don't commit any major crimes. I am a good boy."--- I dunno . . . I just have to say I think this quote is suspiciously innocent for a grunge-punk fella like him . . . "I always drop something or break something. Yesterday I broke a cup. I'm really good around the house."---The last time he broke something. - "When Australians get drunk the Australian yubber comes out. That's a good thing though." - "There's a great deal of poetry and fine sediment in a chest of tea." "Yes, I have got a girl's haircut. I'm in touch with my feminine side. We have this ongoing competition about who can get the gayest haircut. My friend Jason has just kicked my ass by getting a layered feather-cut like in that movie 'Pretty In Pink'."---Kerrang Magazine June 28th, 1997 "I'll always remember 1995 as the year I found out 'Star Trek' wasn't real." "I thought about cutting it (his hair) but I don't want to give the critics the satisfaction." - "I'll probably wait (to move out of his house) until I'm 19. I want to enjoy one more year of getting my wash done for me." - "Ben's got a fixation with females, me and Chris are trying to hold him back but he's an animal." "The Rock Melon is mine, Chris!!! Give it here!!! It's mine!! It's mine and no one elses!"---YTV "Room service... baby, I need a meal." – Now if only he would’ve said that more often, there would’ve never been the whole anorexia thing. "I love my dog."---Daniel on Sweep on MuchMusic's Intimate and Interactive. - "I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep." What he would do if the world was to end in 10 minutes. - "Rugrats kicks ass." - "It's probably been like about 6 years but we deduct time for sleeping." Talking about how long the band has been together. "I would have grounded you for ages for listening to techno." "We don't think about the money side of things at all. The only reason we're playing is for fun." "Yeah, we're very rock 'n roll." "That is the best place in the whole world!"---on Magic Mountain Well, that's Chris for you. He likes to lie down when he's finished playing his parts." "I don't think I want to do interviews with Ben anymore" "I find it hard to make friends with people because I don't trust many people. I used to, but I don't anymore. It's not like I hate evryone. It's just hard to find people I trust. That's why I love Ben." "We're not total perverts. Well, Gillies is. His life revolves around girls." "'Cause it's on that stupid show, um, "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure."---Daniel on the word "bogus." "He's a stud."---Daniel talking about Ben!! "We're going to be the rave revival band. We're going to bring back rave. It's going to be the new sensation sweeping the nation." "Can you not talk as loud, please? I can't hear the crunch of the food."--- Spin Sessions. "January 5th, 1992."---The last time Daniel washed his hair...this was from an interview back in Feb. '97 "Ben's obessed with breasts. When he can't get a girl, he plays with his own or mine if he's really bored." "Ben stole my underwear again" "There's this guy in the hospital and he's just finished an operation and the doctor walks in and says, "I've got some good news and some bad news." He goes, "Okay, tell me the bad news." He goes, "We chopped the wrong leg off." And he's like, "NO! What's the good news?" and he goes, "Your bad leg is getting better." Yeah!"---Daniel's little joke "I'm not going to swear because my mum told me not to say fuck."---From a concert "ben's the keith moon of silverchair" "Whatever- that's what you say in L.A. You say, "WHATEVERRRR!"---Dec. 3rd, 1996 "My mum's strong."---From Spin Sessions (awwe! I love how they say mum. . . . mum mum mum . . .) "I've been working out."---Spin Sessions, again. "I like to piss on ducks when I'm bored" "I'd just like to warn you, I've been pumping iron. Hey! I'm not joking, I went to the gym. Do you want to see me flex? Yeah?I'll wait till i'm bigger, next year, next, in five years time I'll come back, you'll be scared." "I never had a social live, don't ever want one because it's boring."
"And you said,
"That's what our mums and dads did."----on what they are today.
"I don't think I want to do another interview with Ben. (why) I just don't like it. I feel intimidated. (why). Cuz you're (Ben) just too big."
"All right, um, I've got something to say and it's very important, so listen up. No, it's not important, but if you want, you can listen. Imagine, right, you're like laying in the sand, just laying there, just gettin' sandy, and you develop this really bad, like, fungusy rash. And you started scratching it and it went like yellow, green and whatever other colours fungusy rashes get. And you
went to the doctor and they said there was nothing wrong. But it got worse and started coming off on the itchy carpet, and you realized you were allergic to sand and you got it all in your hair and you started going bald and um, developed funny penis-shaped objects on your chest. I just thought
that'd be funny."---Said December 3rd, 1997
"we don't want to get established as a teenybopper, All-4-One band."
" I think we just broke up." About the band, not a girlfriend
"We're not successful." haha
"Put your hand up if you're a jock. Yeah, jocks, we salute you. All right, put your hand up if you're a grunge cadet. All right, grunge cadets win so far. Put your hand up if you're a fuckwit. Ah, we have many a fuckwit in the house. I didn't say it, you did! Um, put your hand up if you're homosexual.
Yeah! Gay pride! I'm not -- I'm bi, 'cause that's the cool thing to be... 'Cause bisexual is cool. And if you'll try anything, you're trisexual. Oh, sorry."---said December 3rd, 1997 in Newcastle, Australia
"The next song's about suicide and um, and if you're still thinking about it, don't do it, because it's fucked."--about Suicidal Dream, December 3rd, 1997. Very good advice!
"Shut up (directed at girls who were screaming his name). Ben's got a little thing where he likes to play little jazz bits to show you how multi-talented he is. He really is. He's quite multi-talented. A multitude of talent. Does anyone here play the harmonica? No one does, but Ben does, 'cause Ben can do anything. What are ya, Ben, what are ya? What can ya do? Anything! Ready? Ssshhh, we want ultimate silence. Don't scream, shut up, SHUT UP! Ah, don't worry about it, we won't do it. It's a little game we like to play but if you don't wanna play, you don't have to. Yeah, this song's about child abuse. "---The Wollogong December 9th, 1997
"We're not going to play anymore...we're all just going to have sex."
"I don't think we're going to kill ourselves, I think we're just going to stop."
"We don't have any fans"
"This song's off a movie soundtrack. It's about animal liberation and being anti-insect fucking. So if you're a sick fuck, and you fuck insects, this song's a fuck-you to you. And if you don't, you have nothing to worry about. Unless you fuck animals. All right."---The Wollongong December 9th, 1997 about SPAWN.
"Shut up. You don't know what you're talking about."---To Ben
"The gigs are about that energy, recording is about testing yourself. We just knew more about recording this time. It wasn't just us mucking around in there."
"Jezus, you are talking stupid. You look like a frog."—towards ben (I think)
"Q: If u could go back in time and either assasinate someone or save someone from death, who would it be?
daniel-I'd save hendrix and ask if I could buy his guitar. And then if he said 'no', I'd assasinate him."
"Hi, I luv Sweep!" Sweeps his dog in case u haven’t figured that out yet buttmunch
"When I was about 14 years old. I dropped a bandsaw on my foot. It went straight through it."---From Kerrang about the last time he cried.
"I feel proud to be Australian every day. I love Australia. It's my favorite country."
"Just a light foundation and some blush, it's a new softer look for me"
"I don't need a girlfriend...I have a rockmelon"
"Ben Gillies - ha ha ha. Actually, I have slept in the same bed as him, but I haven't had any sexual intercourse with him. I'm not very interested. He's not my type. Just sleeping in the same bed as him is bad enough. He snores very loud. He's an animal."---On the Last person on earth he'd sleep with!
"During the holidays I sleep till noon. I'm very much the indoors-y type guy. Ben and Chris like to surf, but I don't really go to the beach any more. I don't even have a tan, which is not very Australian, but the other day I was walking my dog and my arms got a bit red and I thought 'Yeah - a bit of color!'. And I don't eat seafood - I just don't live up to the Australian stereotype at all. I failed!"—I have one thing to say about this quote; whether he lives up to the stereotype or not, he’s still got that damn sexy accent and that’s enough! Haha, and the voice . . . the music . .. sigh
“The people that come to our gigs usually go pretty nuts. People just come there, they jump around, they hurt themselves, and they go home. “
"Chris is not fantastically good with equipment. He hasn't quite got the hang of headphones."
“We never said we didn't suck...we know we suck...” (in response to a heckler)
"I'll have a coke, if they have coke in New Zealand."
“You are an Eskimo and you live in an igloo, you don't live in an Eskimo.” (Daniel correcting Ben)
"Can someone tell me why they put lemons in coke?"
"I've got AIDS, I'm dead, I'm gay, I've got a heroin addiction. I think that's about it."---Talking about rumors spread about him!
“I LOVE blue M&M's “
"Hey, you guys back at the snack bar-- get your asses back here and mosh!"
"Uh-oh, you've done it now! You've pissed off Chris! Chris is one bad motherfucker when he's mad. He's gonna come down there...."
"Stop throwing shit. If you're gonna throw stuff, throw it at Ben, just don't throw it at Chris. He's a motherfucker and he'll kick your ass."
“If negative meant positive we'd be heroes “
"We kinda make a little fire in the middle of the room, we burn stuff in a bin and we just dance around naked."- What silverchair does before going on stage
"I don't know if sitting home every day is normal, but that's what I do."
"Nick's done some seriously weird shit and if you saw him, he's like a praying mantis with glasses. He's like a mad scientist."- Talking about Nick Launay...the producer of Freak Show.
“If you are gonna come on the stage to perform rape, do it the right way, go for the penis “
"Its great watching people running after a truck to get their schoolbag. That's really funny."
"In some ways, it kind of sucks, because sometimes we want to go out and do stuff our friends are doing but we can't, because if the media finds out about it it will be like exaggerated 50 times, like, if we go out and throw an egg at a house and get caught, all of a sudden it will be made into this big thing about us attacking people on the street. That pisses me off."
“Thank you to Magic Dirt for being so sexy.”
"I guess it would be easy to get girls , but a lot of the time you don't want to because you don't want to take advantage of people. Some people are pretty dumb, and they'll do anything just because you're in a band. I don't want to get too involved in that kind of stuff. People in Kiss might take advantage of it, but we really don't."
"Some teachers don't really like us because we're in a rock band. Our music teacher especially really hates
us. She thinks that classical music is the only music in the world, and she's always calling me and Ben to stay after class. One time she was yelling at us that we don't take her seriously, and we were just laughing. She started crying. I felt so bad, but we couldn't help it."
. "I was just asking people to take their clothes off." Did they? "No."
"The agression comes from all the things I've had to deal with. I was going to school, and there'd be photographers there and stuff like that. I love violence. I'm not a violent person. I've never been in a fight in my life, and i don't want to, but i love violence in movies and s-. I don't like it if it's true. It pisses me off, but on video games and stuff it's always a good laugh. I love in the game Mortal Kombat when you rip your opponents' hearts out and set them on fire, and they turn into skeletons. That's so rad."
"I'm just not a very positive person. That's not saying I'm some depressed person that walks around sad everyday, 'cause I'm not. But I like to write my lyrics when I'm not in the best of moods."
“Australia's a 4th world country. “
"The camera will pan across and everyone will go, 'famous person, famous person, three guys sitting with their mums!"
"If I wasn't in our band I'd hate us, just to be cool."
“I'd just like to dare the 16 year-olds from Iowa to try and beat me up. “
"I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time. I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home. I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that. Before I go onstage I just take medication and I'm all right."
"I take antidepressants which help level it out. I still feel the anxiety, but it doesn't show as much. I just get all drugged up before I get to the stage."
"I'm definitely not straight-edge, but have always been into the whole straight-edge movement and that scene and that kind of music. I can understand how people can get into drugs, but personally I think you have to have some form of control over it and I think that some people when they get in powerful positions come up against problems they didn't expect to come up against, so they try to bury their problems with drugs which is very sad, but is reality."
“We're bored give us something funny to do. “
"Probably just that I have always been a very private person who stays in my home and watches movies and paints, and stuff like that. But when people are actually camping outside my house and are following me places I feel really cramped. I just can't handle not having my own privacy."
"That's one of the things I actually find funny. It's strange that all these people expect to wake upon the first day of the year 2000 and have spaceships and things flying past their windows. In reality, they are going to wake up to a big anticlimax. The only thing that'll be different is that every computer in the world is going to be fucked!"
“You haven't seen the people we live with. That's what most of the songs are about”
"That whole song is a reference to them, to drugs, just referring to antidepressants as a princess and a saviour. I use them to level out my moods which is why the chorus goes, 'It's all the same to me,' because they make everything the same. You don't experience highs or lows as everything is levelled out."---about Paint Pastel Princess
"I don't know whether it is medical or not as I try to stay away from being analysed by a psychiatrist I went to a few therapy sessions and I just hated being in a chair being analysed by someone who didn't know me, so I left."
“Is there any beaches like anywhere in this country? “
"I don't know whether she was trying to hunt me down or not, but she definitely found me. She stood there and just stared at me for about a minute. I was just sitting there and ended up saying, 'What do you want?', but she didn't say anything, kept staring at me and then after a while left. I think she thought I looked like her husband."---His encounter with Courtney Love.
"I found my dog in a garbage bag along with some dead puppies. There were three that were alive, so I took her home, fixed her up and now she lives like a queen. With animals it is different to when you're with people, as animals don't like you because you've got money or because they can get something out of you. They either like you or they don't and they can feel love a lot more. You don't have to tell them that you love them - they can just feel it and they know it. Me and my dog are best friends."
"You're not a ripple in the surf, you're a tidal wave."
--Daniel Johns
“"Uh, we have no style to cramp."
If the next album doesn't do very well and the album after that doesn't do very well, then I guess we're just going to say, 'this isn't working'. (laughs)"
"I wanted to play guitar for something to do and I wanted to be Ritchie Blackmore."
"We smell flowers."--when asked if they did drugs
"Whatever you do, you always gotta pay for it. You can't really get
anything out of it. If you pick up the TV and chuck it out a window,
then it's broken. And you don't have any TV for the rest of the
night." --why they don't trash their hotel rooms
Ben:"I can remember a weird question in an interview. A guy asked me if I ever got a boner in a classroom."
Ben:"We don't care how old people are really. They could be 3 to 86 and we just don't care."
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