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DANIEL

"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."
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I didn't want to write songs about being a tortured artist. I didn't want to glamourize depression. I just wanted to be honest and open."
"Throughout all this, I've been lucky to have a stable family life. That means so much."
"I don’t get it. I’m nothing special. When we went 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 just girls, girls, girls. I mean, that just doesn’t happen."---From Massive Magazine
"I still get recognised a lot, but not like I used to. When I was about 16, after school I was getting beaten up, constantly being called faggot, people throwing shit into 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 upon my family."
"A Mercedes. Until recently, I never really bought anything apart from records, and my accountant told me I had to buy something large for tax reasons. So me and my Dad went out looking for fast cars, and ended up buying a Merc. I’d only had it for a week when we left to go on this tour, so I’m looking forward to going home to drive it."---on the most extravagant thing he's ever bought.
"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!
"Probably Chris – I’d be too worried about getting salmonella poisoning from Ben cos he’s so grotty!"---eew! Daniel's response to who he would eat if he were stranded on a desert island!
“I don’t want people to have preconceived ideas of what silverchair’s about. I want them to realise the integrity of this record. I want people to realise that it’s very honest – that it’s not pretentious just because it’s grand. I want them to realise the integrity and passion that’s gone into it.”
“Ben’s a very likeable person. I’ve never seen him be an arsehole to anyone. He’s nice to everyone he meets. People like him. That takes a lot of pressure off me when there’s meet-and-greets to do, which I don’t really like doing; not because I hate the people, but I just don’t like being in crowds.”
"I had friends but at the end of the day their interests were a million miles away from mine. Little by little that seperated 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 has been in my life."
"I spent over $4000 at the video store! All the films I watched have seriously had an influence on me and helped me to see things more clearly, like 'Leaving Las Vegas' for example." We've known each other so long now that we know exactly what makes the other tick. Ben and "Chris are enourmously alike - they have the same interests and the same view of the world whereas I'm very different. But I respect them y'know. They're my friends. Our temperaments are at odds with each other but that's OK. We complement each other, which is the essence of Silverchair."
“It’s a wonder we’re not all schizophrenic."
"I think the people who have a slight understanding of who I am are the people who listen to silverchair. But my lyrics are the negative aspects of life I like to get out of my system. If people think I’m just my lyrics, they’re wrong, because I’m not sitting in a corner depressed. That’s a common perception of me, that I take myself really seriously."
"I still get recognised a lot, but not like I used to. When I was about 16, after school I was getting beaten up, constantly being called faggot, people throwing shit into 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 upon my family."
"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 out, but I 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…."
"Happiness would be finding someone special and living in a bit house with a movie cinema in it. And lots of animals."

CHRIS

"I think that everyone gets that for the entire period of time that they are in there. I don't think it matters who you are, you are going to get bagged by someone. It doesn't really bother me if people say that I'm a dickhead or something like that. I just say, 'Oh well, I'm a dickhead then.'"---Rave Magazine
"I would like to be a mechanic. I like working on cars. I don't want the band just to finish and no one know about it. It would be good to be remembered."---one of my favorite Chris quotes!
"Well, you see... my vocal chords only allow me 2 hours of talking a day, so I have to limit it."
"Don't be a dumbass and step outside naked because your friends will lock you out. Trust me, I know from experience."
"Chris is the lovelist, sweetest, kindest, person I've ever met. From Chris."---AWE!!! CHRIS!!!
"There was this guy, right? Walks into the bar with his dog and says, "Look, I'll give anybody 50 bucks if they can make my dog do something." So this dude comes up and he goes, "50 bucks and I'll make my dog do something." So he goes, "Yeah, give me your dog." He takes the dog and throws it on the fire and says, "Get off."--yes, if it didn't make sense to you, I believe Chris messed up there...Spin Sessions
"I don't own a Nirvana album, or a Pearl Jam one."
"Little things, just to break the boredom. Shaving cream and everything, on the hotel door, then when they walk out, it's a bit of a mess."---Chris on silverchair's tour pranks.
"Well, some of them have come about when, one song [The Door] was a really slow sort of thing and we hated it, but we kept playing it and just sped it up and it sounded better and then it ended up on the record. Daniel had that song for a couple of months, it got the name 'The Poxy Song,' we sped it up and it sounded great."
"Don't be a faggot, Danny! Keep driving!"--From Bikini Magazine
"We have a good sponsorship deal with Huggies."
"My best dish is three minute noodles."
"Can't sing to save myself..."
"London was good, because there was a few Australians in the crowd. Frankfurt really sucked - it was fun, but it was, like, press everywhere and cameras in your face the whole way through, so it sucked the big one for a while. Apart from that, it was all good."---Where Chris likes to play
"Movies are only cool for when you are bored."
"Salem should be good, lots of witches."- When he was asked about the most freakiest city he's ever been in.
"It's funny to hear people say you're a rock star, because when I think of a rock star, I kind of think of this arrogant, stuck-up person that's too good for everyone and no good for anyone else."
"I've read the first few pages of Hammer of the Gods and that was enough."
"Ben's got this aim in life is to piss everybody off and get people cut. He's very good at it."
"No, ever since I've been about 12 or 13 I've just wanted to be a mechanic and work with engines, I can still see myself doing it in the future just not now. I do a lot of it when I'm at home."
"Ben’s easy, he’s very outgoing, willing to try anything, except for food. He’s very steak and three veg."
"“Chainsaw” they call Ben, ‘cause he snores. When Daniel was younger, he fell over and a watering can went in his mouth and he had to get stitches."

BEN

"It was um, my old man, actually. He's an old surfie and he's you know -- he's into the -- he used to be into that "surf music" and um, he was just buggin' us going, 'Aw, you should play this song -- you should play this song!' So in the end we said yeah, we like the song."---About Surfin' Bird
"You are dumb. You are dumb. I think you're dumb. I just think you're dumb. I'm just putting my opinion forth, I think you're dumb, dumb, dumb."---talking to Daniel! AWE!!!
"Oh, shut up you geek."---Directed at Daniel
"Daniel is actually an idiot."
"Teenyboppers are mental!"
"I want to be your friend."---Talking to Daniel. AWW!!
"I promise that if Mariah [Carey] comes I won't stare at her tits."
"Practice makes perfect, and we've been getting a lot of practice. We're not perfect yet, though."---Scene Magazine
"Americans are just like psychos. They run around in big circles and punch people and there's always a leader. There's like, one, big, heavy dude just walking around going, "Get out of the way, or I'll break you!"---that is so true! Spin Sessions
"Hi my name is Ben Gillies and I enjoy playing watersports, skiing, and waterpolo."---From Spin Sessions
"No, it was too small. I think I need a bigger cup size, you know?"--Ben's bra size...Spin Sessions
"Daniel Johns has the smallest left arm in history!"---Spin Sessions again!
"10 years from now, I'll probably be an accountant or something, maybe a rocket scientist. That's what I'm aiming for. I've got a few degrees, I'm actually going to Yale, yeah. I'm pretty intellectual, yeah, you know, whatever you call it."---Launch CD
"My mum snores."---Spin Sessions. Ben, I'm sorry your mum snores.
"Johns, you're an animal!"---When Daniel farted...
"But when she turns into the lizard sci-fi girl with things taken out of her head, we thought that would be pretty cool."---About the Freak video
"This police car pulled up and this big black guy got out, and he was the meanest f- you've ever seen. His eyes were wide open , and they were popping out of his sockets. Basically, we knew we were f-ed." --- About the Montero Sport incident.
"I think that last time, a lot of people thought that we were just a one-shot wonder. This album is basically gonna shove it in their faces and say' look you f-ers, we're here to stay.'"
"After the show in Germany, we were waiting in the band room and Marilyn Manson walks in and says, "Come on boys, we're going for a drink." We were drinking some weird drink like a Fireball or something. It was scotch with a bit of coke and some other spirit and we had shots of it. That was pretty cool. They were surprisingly down to earth, cool guys. If you saw them on stage you'd think they were psychos that go around killing chickens."----About how he met Marilyn Manson
"Do you mind if we go to sleep?"
"I asked Daniel what happens when we're not "the youth" anymore. He said, 'It's not about how old you are. It's about how old you feel.'"
“I like to socialise and go out and have a bevy, but I think Daniel still gets hassled a bit. But that’s the price you pay for being the frontman. I just sit up the back hitting the drums, no-one notices me.”
"Chris is quiet, but when he gets pissed, his true side comes out, he’s a yobbo. Daniel, I call him ‘the hermit’ because he sleeps strange hours and when he is awake he doesn’t do very much."
"Yeah, but fortunately, my girlfriend’s parents cook different stuff every night. I go over there and if they put something new on the table I’ll be like, “Oh, no!” But they’ll convince me to eat it. Then I’ll gohome and I’ll ne like, “Mum, can we get this?”"
"That's where Led Zep played in THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME video. I love that video. That's why it was such a thrill to be up there playing."---Ben on Madison Square Garden.
"Sometimes Daniel always says how muscle-y he is, being very sarcastic 'cause he's like a puny bastard-mega skinny. He picks fights with me and Chris but we always show him who's boss."
"I'm pretty pissed off he passed away before I met him."---About John Bonham
"The only way to play drums is hard. You can't play drums and not hit 'em, or go in there and be a pansy."
"All that trendy thing is crap."---WOOHOO! YEAH BEN!!!
"I watched the video Speed. That was pretty cool, especially the scene that his head falls off."
"We hate hiphop. It’s boring."---From Oor Magazine
"Daniel Johns sux! Daniel Johns sux!"
"Anyway, we're looking at a career of being wankers."
"They just ask what we've been doing. There's not really much you can say. It's kinda limited. The girls usually go, 'Hi, how are you?', and if they're nice, we'll give them a kiss."
"It was pretty funny whem all our voices werer breaking, though. It was like umm (his voice goes higher) ya know, squeakes....It was like beep!"
"Sometimes we get special considerations for things, like getting into shows free and stuff, and at first it seems really cool. But then you go, hang on a sec. Why should I get special treatment just 'cause I'm in a band?"
"I figured it was either my friendship [with Daniel] that's been going for nearly 10 years or my girlfriend, and i kind of decided which one take priority. I think it worked out for the best. We weren't fighting or anything, but we were starting to lose contact, and now everything's happy and jolly again."
"Slap'er with a snapper!"