'chair Quotes
Daniel - "With the make-up, that's not to get people to perceive me in a different way, it's just what I am. Whether I was in a rock band or not I'd be the same person."
Rollingstone Yearbook1999/2000
With regards to content of Neon Ballroom:
Daniel - "As for personal relationships, a lot of it was a fantasy that I'd hoped for or wished for in my mind and directed it."
Rollingstone Yearbook1999/2000
Daniel : "A lot of people have been very worried about me. But I'm getting better now."
Rolling Stone, May '99
About Emotion Sickness :
Daniel : "It's about fighting against the need to get some kind of medication and trying to pretend that you've got a normal state of mind when you know for a fact you haven't."
Rolling Stone, May '99
Daniel : "There are also some aspects of 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 s***. I just wanted to be honest."
Rolling Stone, May '99
Q : "What's your favourite track?"
Daniel: "'Emotion Sickness' definitely. I'm more proud of that than I've ever been of any song I've written."
Juice '99
Q : "What are you afraid of?"
Daniel : "I've got lots of phobias. I'm extremely claustrophobic, like if I'm in a portaloo and I can't open a 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... "
Juice '99
Q : "Are you an ambitious person?"
Daniel : "Sometimes I am and sometimes I'm not. My life is black and white, it's either very good or very sh*t. [Laughs] Sometimes I just want to sit in my room and do nothing for years."
Juice '99
Q : "Did Adalita influence Neon Ballroom?"
Daniel : "(pause)..Magic Dirt have been my favourite Australian band since I was 13," says Johns, changing the focus back to the band. "Magic Dirt have definitely influenced the way I write."
Sun Herald, Mar '99
Daniel : "But I don't regret writing the album. I'm very proud of it. I regret wasting a long time of my life sitting in a house not seeing friends, just sitting in a cave."
Raygun, May 1999
Kim Taylor : "So, Daniel, if you've never fallen in love, how will you know when you do?"
Daniel : "I think I'll just feel it. Like the way I feel about my dog."
Daniel : "I didn't have anything to do. I was so used to having everything planned out and having no social life. When I was given the opportunity to have one, I didn't know how to deal with it. So straight away I started writing."
Daniel : "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 f*****d!"
Metal Hammer, Mar '99
Daniel : "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."
Metal Hammer, Mar '99
Daniel : "If I was fanatic about it, how could I be in the same band as two of the biggest meat eaters on the planet? But I support the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. As I said, I'm not fanatic or anything, I support them as good as I can, I think everybody should, and sometimes I address the subject in a song."
Circus Magazine, Jul '99
Daniel : "Courtney Love wanted me pretty bad."
Massive Magazine
Daniel : "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."
'Strictly Ballroom'
Daniel : "I don't think that I'm 100% cured. That would be naive to think that, but I'm definitely on the road to being cured. Definitely a lot better than I've been in the last -- my state of mind at the moment is better than it's been in the last two or three years."
MTV News, Jun 11 '99
Daniel : "We wrote [Frogstomp] when we were 14-years-old. It was before we were jaded. It was very honest, straight, traditional rock music."
Watch, Apr '99
Daniel : "Basically I'm two separate people: I'm silverchair Daniel, and I'm real Daniel when I'm at home."
Watch, Apr '99
Q : "What did you think of the lyrics (on Neon Ballroom)?
Ben : "He started signing and because the music's so freakin' loud and he doesn't exactly give us a lyric sheet I didn't even know what they were until we got the album. But I was surprised that they were so personal. He never usually opens up about things, he's very private."
Rolling Stone, May '99
Q : "So with all the band's success, have there been any close encounters of the supermodel kind?"
Ben : "Well, I consider my girlfriend a supermodel."
Time Off 4 Aug '99
Ben : "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."
Ben: "Actually, I used to be a bit of a closet Madonna fan."
Time Off, 4 Aug '99
Ben - "The unsung hero of 'Homebake' is the person who spends all day pushing their way to the very front of the crowd, so that they can get a good spot for their favourite band. Then, as soon as that band comes on, they start to crowd surf, get carried over the punter barrier and have to walk back out into the middle of the crowd before the band even gets to its second song. That's dedication."
Juice, Nov '99
Chris : "Do you want to know the story of our lives? It's hurry, hurry...wait...hurry, hurry...hang on...wait."
Massive Magazine Interview - April 1999
Chris : "Yeah, he (David Helfgott) was very affectionate. He would always hug you and he was always trying to kiss you...I don't think, unless he was sitting at the piano, that there were many times he was just standing by himself. He always had to be near someone. But it was cool - that's what he's like."
Watch, Apr '99
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