Daniel Johns Quotes

Me and my dog are best friends.

There are no big groupie fans or anything.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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