"Ready? Alright. We're gonna jump. If you don't jump, if every single person in the
whole f*cking place isn't jumping around, we're going to play the Australian national
anthem three times in a row."
"I don't really care if I can hear or not when I'm 50 or 60 years old...Oh wait, maybe I
do!"
"I'm playing this song by myself so if you want to go to the toilet, this is the time."
"At the time, we didnt really have a singer, and we just said 'Someone's gotta sing'
and I dont know, somehow it ended up being me, and I just sang with my face to the wall,
cause I was too embarrassed to look out"
"I cried, I fell down, I was on the ground then the people who pierced me started
kicking me." (About when he got his eyebrow pierced)
"Stop throwing f*cking water bottles at my head. If you are gonna f*cking throw
them, don't make them full, 'cause they f*cking hurt"
~*~
Interviewer: "What would you do if the world were to end in 10 minutes?"
Daniel: "I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep"
~*~
"What was that? I didn't hear that but I'm sure it was funny"
"There's one problem with society today. Do you want me to tell you what it is?
Social prejudice and hatred, and the belief that Santa Claus is real.”
"Not grungy enough for you? Who wants to get up on stage and sing up here? If you
get up here I'll let you sing and do whatever you want! If you get up here you can stand on
our PA and jump off it and.. no, wait..don't do that. People in New York sue and we
wouldn't want to have to pay for that. Who wants to get up here? If you get up here you
can sing some rock and roll songs... how about Aerosmith? (singing) 'Dude looks like a
lady!'"
"The camera will pan across and everyone will go, 'famous person, famous person,
three guys sitting with their mums!'"
~*~
Interviewer: What country has the capital Vienna?
Daniel: I thought that was an ice cream!
~*~
"Thanks. No more clothes, please. We've got a flowered shirt, a hat...that's all we
need to get through the hard times.”
"I'm not afraid to show my feminine side, I'm proud of it. In fact, me and
Ben have an announcement to make...." (Just kiddin’!)
"The Rockmelon is mine, Chris!!! Give it here!!! It's mine!! It's mine and no one else’s!"
"That's a silly question. I'm not even going to bother. I'm just going to say 'nope.' I
have a Rock Melon anyway. I don't need a girlfriend."
"It's my Rock Melon, I love my Rock Melon. My intimate feelings for it are more
than any girl, except Sweep."
"...I'm married to my dog"
"My dog is a lovely creature. Chris is lovely as well, but i reckon my dog is cuter"
"You can always trust your dog. It's the best. You know why they love you and why
they respond to you. Maybe because you feed them or something."
~*~
Interviewer: Who would you rather do it with, Kylie Minogue or Courtney Love?
Daniel: Oh, God! Neither!
~*~
"You can only be young once but you can be immature forever"
"Some dude in the crowd decided it would be pretty fun to make a guys head bleed,
pegged a bottle at my head! It was pretty good, it was fun, there would have been some
good pictures but Mum's camera got stolen!"
”Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house
burns down.” (Interviwer: Well I'm sure in the studio there will be a few people to keep
an eye on you.) “Yeah there are people standing around with extinguishers.”
"I would have grounded you for ages for listening to techno."
"If I wasn't in our band I'd hate us, just to be cool."
"Its great watching people running after a truck to get their schoolbag. That's
really funny."
"Whatever- that's what you say in L.A. You say, "WHATEVERRRR!"
"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!”
"My dog Sweep is on a song, but it's very hard to hear. It's on "Steam Will
Rise". I was doing a lot of the vocals in a vocal booth, and my dog was in the
recording studio, and she was getting upset because I was singing and not paying
attention to her. There was actually a break in the music, and she barked to kinda
get my attention, and we kept it on because she sounded so cool."
"The dumbest one, which everyone believed, was on the internet. It said I’d got
married when I was 16. They superimposed my photo on a guy’s head and it looked
really real. All my cousins were ringing up saying, “I can’t believe you didn’t invite
me to your wedding”. So I just told them it didn’t feel right at the time."---on the
best rumor Daniel has ever heard about himself!
"I spent over $4000 at the video store!”
“It’s a wonder we’re not all schizophrenic."
"Happiness would be finding someone special and living in a bit house with a
movie cinema in it. And lots of animals."
"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!
“You look all funky in your winter attire.”
"I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring."
"When in doubt, lie."
"The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns" - said by Art from everclear
"Sometimes Daniel always says how muscley he is; being very sarcastic cuz he's like a puny bastard- mega skinny. You know how if you're right
handed your right arm is stronger them your left? His right arm...he's got a bit
of muscles there, but his left, there's nothing there, just skin and bone! So he
always walks around and says 'Yeah, I'm pretty muscley aren't I?" He picks fights with me and Chris, but we always show him who's boss." Said by Ben
“I’m not sure, so don’t quote me on that!”
“You can always trust your dog. It's the best. You know why they love you and why they
respond to you. Maybe because you feed them or something."
"I can't say that word. That's out of my range. Fu** is as extreme as I get." About the word C*nt.
"A lot of people who get into any form of art have some form of mental... something in their head is
unstable."
"People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten
up and go ice skating."
"I like to influence girls."
"There's a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea."
"All guys back in the snack bar, get your asses out here and mosh! Food is bad, unless your anorexic... food is good!"
"I remember 1995, that was the year I found out Star Trek wasn't real!"
"We have a new album, it's not very good. You won't like it!"
"I hope I don't go to jail. I hope I don't get raped!" (concerning the Santa
Monica incident where he was arrested for test driving a car on the beach for Bikini Magazine)
"Grunge is just a stupid word for alternative!" he growls
"When you get in arguments like we often do you're always out numbered: Ben and Chris vs. Daniel!"
"We don't have any style to cramp!"
"Sorry Ben, I love you!"
"I just happen to be allergic to water, knobjockey!" (To someone in the
audience that threw a water bomb at him)
"As long as you keep waking through the crowd you're okay!"
"I'm not gonna lie, we're pretty much computer illiterate, all of us. My
brother's really into the computer, I just can't understand it. I like looking at
it when my brother's doing it, but I'm just not smart enough!"
"We're are big on compromise ... as long as we win out in the end!"
"All we did in music class was tap wood sticks together!"
"This song is new, but not as new as the others" commenting on their oldest
song, tomorrow!
"We like to change guitars a lot ‘cause it makes us look like we are rich, we
aren't rich, we just look rich".
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