Top 49 Quotes & Sayings by Daniel Johns

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian musician Daniel Johns.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Daniel Paul Johns is an Australian musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the former frontman, guitarist, and main songwriter of the rock band Silverchair. Johns is also one half of The Dissociatives with Paul Mac and one half of Dreams with Luke Steele. He released his first solo album, Talk, in 2015. Johns' second solo album, FutureNever, was released on 22 April 2022. In 2007, Johns was ranked at number 18 on Rolling Stone's list of The 25 Most Underrated Guitarists. Johns has won 21 ARIA Awards from 49 nominations as a member of Silverchair, and has earned four other nominations as a solo artist.

Australian - Musician | Born: April 22, 1979

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Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.

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We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

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With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

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I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

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We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.

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I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

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We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

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It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.

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Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.

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I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

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I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.

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I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

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None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

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I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

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I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

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I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

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I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

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When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

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I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

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I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

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There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.

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I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

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There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

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We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.

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The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

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I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

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I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

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It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

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I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.

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Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.

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There are no big groupie fans or anything.

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Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.

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So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

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Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

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I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.

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Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.

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I don't know if sitting home everyday is normal, but that's what I do.

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A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

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Think what you want, this is what we are.

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I'll always remember 1995 as the year i found out Star Trek wasn't real

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I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep

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I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.

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There are a lot of wankers, and a lot of people who think they are really hardcore and cool but they're not.

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You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.

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If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

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Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner

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People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.

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Me and my dog are best friends.

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Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.

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Top 49 Quotes & Sayings by Daniel Johns

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