"Think what you want, this is what we are."
"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 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 you love them - they can just feel it and they know. Me and my dog are best friends."
"Believe it or not, I never had any desire to be famous - I just wanted to play music."
"I'm not sure, so don't quote me on that."
"I haven't had a girlfriend since I was 14. I don't want a girlfriend. We don't have any time, and it's so hard now to meet people and wonder if they like me or my money.”
"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 everyone. It's just hard to find people that I trust. That's why I love Ben."
"I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring."
"When in doubt, lie."
"One time we were all at Ben's house and we were really bored so we're like 'We'll request a song on the radio. We'll request “Berlin Chair” by You Am I. And that day at school we were talking about how we didn't like Nirvana very much, and our friends said you should listen to “Sliver” cuz its a good song, so I said ‘Chris, write down sliver and chair so I remember what songs to request,’ and he spelled it Silver chair. So, I said ‘Oh, good one!’"
"Yes, I've 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 the movie 'Pretty in Pink'."
"The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns" - said by Art from everclear
"I don't want people to think I'm whining and I don't want people to feel sorry for me, I couldn't give a shit. I just wanted to be honest."
"I don't usually write when I'm in a good mood. That's when I want to be out living a life."
"Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'."
"I like to raise my middle finger. It shows my masculine side. Shows how tough I am."
"I love you too, so so much"
"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'm married to my dog"
"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’!)
"Daniel's last meal: "My own Veggie soup. Or pasta. I make a mean veggie soup. It's the best. I just chuck everything in - every single veggie, every spice. It's beautiful. I've been a vegan 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."
"It's my rockmelon, I love my rockmelon. My intimate feelings for it are more than any girl, except Sweep."
"My dog is a lovely creature...Chris is lovely as well...but I reckon my dog is cuter"
"We can't give autographs. We just write our names."
"It's a wonder we're not all schizophrenic."
"I think the people that have a slight understanding of who I am are the people who listen to silverchair"
"Ever since the band started, I was never really perceived as being real", Daniel says wearily. "I was seen as the next Kurt Cobain by the press, or the guy that everyone wanted to beat up back home. The only person who saw me as a real person were my family and friends. That's why I 'm very close to all those people who've always treated me real."
"During the holidays I sleep till noon. I'm very much 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!"
"We don't have any fans."
"Hi. I love Sweep."
"My life is black and white, it's either very good or very sh*t."
Obscenity is absurd. Obscenity is absurd - remember that. Cause in some places you can get arrested for swearing. Dependent on how much you need to have freedom of speech."
"On this album I kind of realized I'm not a real man so it is time to go back to what I do. Real men don't sing falsetto."
"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 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 streets. That pisses me off."
"I'm a little bit scared of spiders but I still move them away, I just put them in a cup and let them go in the garden."
"I can't say that word. That's out of my range. Fu** is as extreme as I get." About the word C*nt.
"Girls don't like skinny guys, it's just the way it is."
"There are a lot of wankers, and a lot of people who think they are really hardcore and cool, but they're not."
"Speaking of misconceptions, the biggest misconception about me is I'm constantly on tour getting different girls everynight, being this wild sex machine."
"A lot of people who get into any form of art have some form of mental... something in their head is unstable."
"I don't think you can be too young to be too deep..I just write about whatever I'm feeling. I'm not trying to be deep, it just happens to be deep. I can be shallow, I can be very shallow."
"In America there's a lot more room to be like, run around and be silly."
"People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating."
"I have dreams about going after people with knives. I was running and all these people were throwing knives at each other, and it was dark and scary and cloudy, like a labyrinth, I fell in a hole and blood started falling in, and I was drowning in it. So, I got this knife from a guy who had been stabbed and was making me drown in blood, and I threw it and killed him."
"Money is nothing expect a false sense of power."
"If I wasn't in our band I'd hate us, just to be cool."
"I pretty much hate everyone before I meet them. I judge people, which I'm trying to stop, but it's very hard because I hate everyone before I know who they are. They've got to win me over."
"We don't think about the money side of things at all. The only reason we're playing is for fun."
"I don't think I am too picky or anything. I just want to meet a nice girl."
"Without the negative experiences you wouldn't really feel the positive."
"It's actually not a love song at all... its about not being in love, not finding love and not caring about it." (About “Miss You Love” on “Neon Ballroom”)
"I've always really liked this style of lyrics that this album has but I have always avoided it because I wanted to really get a strong message across so that people that listen to our music understand them. But now I think that the people that actually listen to our music have grown up and they can actually rate into the lyrics a lot more."
"I've got lots of phobias. I'm extremely claustrophobic, like if I'm in a portaloo and I can't open the door, I cry. Not cry as in scream loud, but get really frantic and start shaking. I'm scared of so much. I can't be in large crowds for very long, otherwise I start shaking..."
"I'm definitely not straightedge, but have always been into the whole straight-edge movement and the 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 sad, but is reality."
"I don't get it. I'm nothing special. When we got big, I didn't have heaps of girls after me like everyone seemed to think. I think I had less girls interested in me after we got big than before. And I'm not saying I had heaps of girls after me before. I didn't even have a proper girlfriend after that for ages. Everyone's perception is that it's girls, girls, girls. I mean, that just doesn't happen."
"I still get recognized a lot, but not like I used to. When I was about 16, after school I was getting beaten up, constantly being called a faggot, people throwing shit in our pool and hassling my family. That was really hard. There was a point during Freak Show that silverchair was about to end because I didn't want to inflict anything else on my family."
"I had friends but at the end of the day their interested were a million miles away from mine. Little by little that separated me from them. I began to spend my time making music and watching TV with my dog. I never really had a social life. People didn't bother with me, because to them I'd already given up on my youth. Since I was eight years old I've wanted people to hear what I play. I wrote my first songs at primary school. That's all there had been in my life."
"I don't want people to have preconceived ideas of what silverchair's about. I want them to realize the
integrity of this record. I want people to realize that its honest - that it's not pretentious just of this record. I want them to realize the integrity and passion that's gone into it."
