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Name: Daniel Johns Band: Silverchair Position Guitar, Vocals Date Of Birth April 22 1979 Place Of Birth ? Sex Male Official Site: Silverchair Fan Site: Abuse The Freak Fan Site: The Door Fan Site: Behind The Chair Fan Site: Fan Site Fan Site: Fan Site

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


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


-"You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever."


-"We were just... We're from Australia!"


-"Stop throwing shit. If you're gonna throw stuff throw it at Ben just don't throw it at Chris. He's a mean motherfucker and he'll kick your ass"


-"rock is the answer, violence solves nothing"


-"They looked at me, and made me scared....and then I left"


-"'man-nil-la... tastes like vanilla, someone tried to kill her, cos she stole my pillar!'"


-"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"


-"Fuck food! Fuck food!"


-"What? You want Ben to put his head thru the kit drum? Heads aren't meant for kit drums, kit drums aren't meant for heads. Hats are for heads, heads are for hats. Which would be good if you worked in a hat factory"


-"People don't understand sarcasim, like, they take everything too serriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating."


-"There's one problem in society today, do you want me to tell you what it is? Social prejudice and hatred...and a belief that Santa Claus is real." The audience laughed and he went on to make some crude but funny jokes about Santa's weight and Mrs.Claus, he was about to start Israel's Son before he remembered there were younger people in the audience, so he reminded the younger kids that he was just joking... Except wait, if there's any young people in the audience that was just a joke to look cool to the older crowd. It's not true. Now I'm not fucking joking, I saw a reindeer when I was little. It was nothing to do with Santa but I did see a reindeer. It looked very nice...it was very sexy."


-"I get on really well with my parents, we've grown really close. I never fight with them. They were the ones who got me into music. Mum and Dad got me into Black Sabbath. Before that I was just a break dancer."


-"We’re going to see who can dance the best, the top or the bottom. I’m going to keep tags on who’s the best. The winner gets to have sex with Ben Gillies, including males. He’s experimented on me, and it’s not bad."


-"Money is nothing except a false sense of power"


-"I really am a terrorist.. So, you know.. Watch out!"


-"There's also some aspects to my personality that aren't depressing you know, when I'm not on tour or writing music I'm just at home being an average guy. I don't want people to think I'm whinging and I don't want people to feel sorry for me, I couldn't give a shit. I just wanted to be honest."


-"How strong is the glass?"


-"Probably every Christmas and every birthday, whenever I was getting stuff. [Laughs] Everyone sitting around and everone focusing on me, I was pretty happy."


-"Thanks for coming tonight, on a Sunday night. Sixty-Minutes is on and there are probably some good stories you're missing. Thanks for choosing silverchair over Sixty-Minutes."


-"I pretty much hate everone 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.."


-"If you touch me, I swear to god I'll combust."


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


-"In America there's a lot more room to like, run around and be silly"


-"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 knive from a guy who had been stabbed and was making me drown in blood, and I threw it and killed him."


-"Our toliets just suck"


-"I don't have any dreams... They're all fufilled."


-"Who Here Believes In Mortal Kombat? WHO BELIEVES TO FIGHT TO THE FUCKING DEATH? Well we dont, The buddhists dont neither does the dahli llama, Ok Who here believes in Jesus? Who Here believes in Satan? Yeh we thought so, Satan always wins no matter where we go Chicago, Canberra or Germany .... GERMANY FUCKIN' LOVES SATAN, SATAN FUCKIN' RULES! Don't get me wrong, we believe in Jesus, but not that Jesus, we believe in all gods."


-"Ben's Mini Chad"


-"Without the negative experinces you wouldn't really feel the positive."


-"Paint Pastel Princess is good for Ben because he's a bit gay and wears lipstick ocasionally"


-"We were talking about the similiarities between us and the Spice Girls and the Backstreet Boys and so on. There's like a cute Spice, right, like Baby Spice, that's Sam, because he's innocent and new. Then there's Sporty Spice who's like Chris, 'cause he's in good shape, works out and stuff, keeps himself well maintained. Ben is Scary Spice 'cause he's a drummer, he's wild. And I'm Posh Spice because I'm a bitch -- and I'm gonna be married to a famous soccer player."


-"Ben's obssessed with breasts. When he can't get a girl he plays with his own, or mine if he's really bored."


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


-"Ben's always picking up other instruments, messing about. He's a frustrated guitar hero.....He also sings a bit, but he's different to me. Ben has more of a death metal approach."


-"I find it hard to make friends with people, because I don't trust many people," he explains. I used to, but I don't anymore. It's not like I hate everyone. It's just hard to find people I trust. That's why I love Ben."


-"If i were a fisherman, i would catch fish. if i were an octagon, i'd have many sides. and if i were a prostitute, i would fuck and fuck and fuck and fuck and fuck!"


-"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 hard now to meet people and wonder if they like me or they like my money. It's too much of a hassle, so I just got a fucking dog"


-"Anyone who wants to be in a movie after the show go to the nearest McDonalds because we're going to film a movie. We're going to film a how to purchase a burge movie. It's really good."


-"I like to influence girls."


-"It isn't unusal for a school to disklike their principal. You know when I was in school I hated my principal but not because he wasn't nice, just because he was principal. I hated him as a matter of principle, get it?"


-"I think she was joking but I can't understand Americans very well."


-"If you own three of our albums you probabl know it. If you own two of our albums there's a 2/3 chance you'll know it. If you own 1 of your albums there's a 1/3 chance you'll know it, and if you don't own any of our albums you probably won't like it."


-"We're going to be like teachers tonight bcause we want to be teachers."


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


-"I'm not afraid to show my feminine side .. I'm proud of it. In fact, me & Ben have an announcement to make .."


          -Daniel Johns, Silverchair, Guitar & Vocals, April 22 1979