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Chris
- "One time I wrote a girl one of those letters asking her to check the box "yes" or "no" if she wanted to go out with me. She checked "no." I was crushed!"
- "Do you want to know the story of our lives? It's hurry, hurry...wait...hurry, hurry...hang on...wait."
- "Could someone please get Ben a date? He's getting frisky."
- "When Daniel gets on stage and he just sees, like an ugly female, he has this reaction to just scream and like, I reckon it's heaps funny cuz the crowd thinks it's cut but they don't know what he's screaming at."
- "Don't be a dumbass and step outside naked, cuz your friends will lock you out, trust me, I know from experience."
- "If we did [star in a movie], we would be the worst actors ever."
- "I'm not religious"
- When asked Do u get belly button lint? "All the time, it's a real problem for me. Do you know how to get rid of it?"
- "You don't want to hear ben sing........"
- "Prodigy actually covered Petrol & Chlorine."
- "Chainsaw" they call ben, 'cuz he snores."
- Explaining the day they won the radio thing..."Daniel was over at my house. After school, we'd go past my house, and we'd always come in and have a drink, then he'd go home. And, like, Daniel's mum was at my house, and she ran out and said, 'They won! They won!' We were just crazy, running around, going so berserk. It was so exciting."
- Best movie: "Trainspotting" Worst movie "Ghoulies"
Ben
- " A guy asked me what I'd do if I got a boner in the classroom and had to stand up in front of the class. I said, 'I don't know!' I thought it was funny, though."
- Boxers or Briefs? "Boxers. Definitely boxers. Briefs are like, when you wear briefs it's like someone's got a hold of you 24 hours a day."
- "I hate reading it sucks, it's so boring."
- Picks up the plastic bag of sliced ham and waves it under Johns' nose. "Go on, get some pork on your fork!"
- "Sam, you're such a Jedi Knight!"
- "That's.....that's a puff-rag!"
- Commenting Britney Spears 'Baby one more time'. "I love this song, it's so catchy."
- "I hate travelling, it's one of the crappiest things in the world."
- "We just wanted to go over to his house (Daniels') with a lump of meat and, 'EAT IT!'"
- "There was this guy there tying balloons." Sausage Balloons?"Yeah, and see I went there with a mate and we tried to get this guy to make a doodle... you know like a doodle?" Yeah I have a fairdea. "Yeah like in male genatalia." Yes the Agenda Piece. "We were going 'make a doodle, make a doodle' and he made a poodle and we were going nah not a poodle, a doodle. Pretty good story, huh? Then we tried to give the poodle away but no one wanted it."
- "In our year off ('98), Daniel turned into a hermit."
- "No one likes me. No one wants to go out with me I'm so upset."
- "We get cold sores all over our bodies."
- "John Watson is the coolest guy in the world."
- "Thanks mom for my dry bum."
- "I'm a gimp."
- "Sorry I got a speech impediment."
- "Don't say the F word, it's rude."
- "I was thinking of becoming a gynecologist."
- "My penis is peirced."
- "I gave Daniel a black eye!"
- "Daniel is definitely not gay."
- "None of that swearing big fella."
- Directed at Dan,"Mr. Stay-at-home-and-don't-have-a-girlfriend."
- "I like girls, they make me feel funny. That's why I like Daniel, he's a femme, he makes me feel funny."
- "Daniel's just a horny camper."
- "First would ask her (Alanis Morissette) what type of shampoo she uses."
- "Come on, you fairy, I wanna go bungie jumping!"
- "I'd do a show naked."
- "You wanna go halves on a baby?"
- "What's an angel like you doing so far from heaven?"
- "We’re actually quite, quite.......we’re very mature."
- "Bras and all that kind of stuff on stage makes us laugh. We usually take them home and wear them."
- "Happy music makes you smile and jump around like a fairy."
- Best movie: "Trainspotting, Shawshank Redemption"
Daniel - "I think the people that have a slight understanding of who I am are the people who listen to silverchair."
- If you could change anything about this world's current situation, what would be your first decision? "For Neighbours to be played on weekends as well as weekdays."
- Who was your role model as a kid? And why? "Mr T, Mr Music and Mr Johns."
- "Girls Don't like skinny guys, it's just the way it is."
- Who would you least like to see naked? "My grandparents!"
- Is it true you have a tattoo something to do with animal liberation? If so did you design it yourself or was the design your own idea? "Yes, it has to do with Animal Liberation. Seeing as though you have to live with a tat for the rest of your life, I made sure that mine would be something that would always be relevant to me."
- What's the best/funniest/most illegal thing that's happened on tour this year? "We had an incident in New York which fits all three of your criteria. I wasn't there but I heard all about it the next day. We were doing some shows with Blink 182 so Ben and Chris went out with some of the guys from Blink after the show to this place called the Russian Vodka Room. Strictly speaking that was illegal because they were only 19, and the legal drinking age over there is 21. Anyway, they were all apparently drinking these really weird vodkas that tasted of different sorts of fruit and were really strong. Ben was very thirsty and he really likes fruit so he ended up accidentally drinking more than he should have done. At about 3am he projectile vomited right into the face of Blink's manager who was extremely unimpressed & went kinda crazy about it. Everybody else thought it was pretty funny though."
- Have you ever ran wild and naked outside when you were drunk? What's the story? "Nah, sometimes I'd like to do that sort of stuff, but it's probably end up in the paper and I'd have to live with it for the rest of my life! So I save it for private functions."
- What does God look like? "Ozzy Osbourne"
- "It’s a wonder we’re not all schizophrenic.
- "When we first started, even though we weren’t good-looking - we were painted out as these really cute kids and it wasn’t until people saw us live that people realised that we weren’t just a teeny manufactured band. We were just normal school kids."
- "It's [Dawson's Creek] not in the same league as Beverly Hills 90210"
- "If you want to take your clothes off that's cool, we don't mind. If you wanna do it, there's no stopping you. In fact, if you take your clothes off, feel free to make your way to the stage and you can parade around and we'll give you $10 each."
- "Thanks for all coming on a Sunday night. I'm sure 60 Minutes had some good stories on and you chose silverchair over 60 Minutes, so thank you."
- "Yeah, rock, rock n' roll. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's me being enthusiastic -- yeah, yeah, yeah! Whoever made a sign today, uhhh, thank you for going through all the trouble and making a sign. I forgot what I was going to say again. All right, H20, that's the scientific name for water, in case you didn't know. Does anyone have any entertainment that they want to share with the crowd? Does anyone have any songs? Party tricks, et cetera? Yeah, seriously, if you've got one, you're allowed to come up and demonstrate because my head's gone a bit black. Yeah, does anyone have one? Who? You? What do you have? All right, come up, get that guy, get that guy who's got his song. If you touch me, I swear to God, I'll combust. Yeah, security's got him, don't you worry, you're gonna get your money's worth here, 'cause I can tell, this is gonna be beautiful. Go, sing your song. What song, what song is it? Yeah, he's going to do a song he wrote. Go, sing with that microphone. That's your mic, you've been allocated that microphone. Yeah, what do you wanna do? What do you wanna do? Do you know the words to The Door? Yeah. You better know, don't let us down, I hope you're a fan. Oh, he's not, he's not a fan. We're gonna play this song, I'm gonna sing, and you can just join in whenever the fuck you feel like it. Hey, we need movement, OK? 'Cause I've decided that I'm not gonna move because I've decided I'm a Statue of Liberty. You're gonna have to parade the stage like a rock god or goddess, whatever you want. Stand on the PA, go crazy... if you're good, I swear to God, any band you want, we've got connections. We know everyone. If you want to sing with Pantera, you're there. You wanna sing with... who else, who else is fucking big? Aerosmith? Best friends. Ready? All right, we don't usually do this, but this guy looks good."
- "The church is always right!"
- "I hate Britney Spears! I hate her, and I hate her music."
- "There was a time in Germany and I really needed a piss so I put my guitar down and dashed off and Ben and Chris were on stage for five minutes while I was backstage looking everywhere for a toilet. I had to explain to everyone where I'd gone."
- Who would you say is the most intelligent member of silverchair? "That would, Ben, Ben's very intelligent. He's um, been studying rocket scientifics, things like that, he's um -- Dentistry, he's good with teeth."
- Who's the best looking member? "That would be Chris probably"
- About Chris "He's the bass player,he's got a very daunting aura about him when he's on the stage pounding the bass, kind of gauging the ground."
- "Okay, there's a lot of drum solos on the new album just mainly because Ben was in a really good mood one day, he just came in and it was a good day, he has good and bad days, like one out of five gigs he'll actually play well, so he came into the studio and he played really hard, fast, like good solos, like very Jon Bonham-esque, which is what he wants, he really likes Jon Bonham, the drummer, in Led Zeppelin, you know, Led Zep from the seventies -- Yeah, so we're just, you know very influenced by the whole seventies psychedelic thing in the whole, you know(makes wanking gestures)."
- "But it’s also strange doing your third album when you’re 19. It feels like I’ve spent my teenage years achieving a career, rather than living a life."
- What's in your wallet right now? "A Telecard so that I can ring up my Mummy and Daddy, my driver's licence, bank cards so that I can buy crap, 45 francs cash and $15 in Australian money."
- If you were marooned on a desert island without food, which member of silverchair would you choose to eat first? "Probably Chris - I'd be worried about getting samonella poisoning from Ben because he's so grotty!"
- About reading his sisters teen mags "I keep in touch with what the Spice Girls are doing."
- When asked about the beach incident "I just went there and the policemen looked at me and made me scared."
- "I was just trying to prove to myself that I'm more than just a hard rock songwriter. I wanted something to show for my dedication to playing music."
- "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."
- What's the best rumour you've ever heard about yourself? "The dumbest one, which everyone believed, was on the internet. It said I'd got married when I was 16. They super-imposed my photo onto a guy's head and it looked really real. All my cousins were ringing up and saying, 'I can't believe you didn't invite me to your wedding'. So I just told them that it didn't feel right at the time...'"
- "I don’t respond to things I hear (about me) and drugs. There’s no real right answer, so I don’t talk about it."
- "On this album (Neon Ballroom), I was purely trying to please myself, and that was it. Musical masturbation."
- "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've heard rumours that I'm dead, on drugs, have AIDS. I've heard rumours that I'm gay. I'm listening to it going,'Fuckin hell, you can tell you're bored.'"
- "Ben likes boys"
- "I guess it would be easy to get girls , but a lot of the time you don't want to because you don't want to take advantage of people. Some people are pretty dumb, and they'll do anything just because you're in a band. I don't want to get too involved in that kind of stuff. People in Kiss might take advantage of it, but we really don't."
- Have you ever needed to take a shit when you're onstage? "No. I've had to take a piss, though. I just told everyone in the crowd that I was going to the toilet. I was quick, I was only like a minute."
- "It's (Beverly Hills 90210) the original. I remember seeing it when I was in Year 6 and I hated it because it was so uncool but I decided about a year and a half ago that I liked it and now I watch it all the time."
- Do you still phone your dog Sweep when you're away? "Yeah, occasionally. She talks back to me. I ask her how the weather is, she's like,'Pretty cool....'"
- "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."
- "Courtney Love wanted me pretty bad."
- "We've known each other so long now that we know exactly what makes the other tick. Ben and Chris are enormously 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."
- "I like to raise my finger. It shows my masculine side, shows how tough I am."
- "I think it's important to find a tour mascot for every tour, but we don't have one particular mascot. We usually pick something up on the first show, then take it everywhere."
- "We didn't want to get established as a teenybopper, All-4-One band."
- "We're not going to play anymore....we're all just going to have sex."
- "I don't commit any major crimes. I am a good boy."
- What's the silliest thing you've ever done? "Deciding to give up my promising career as a porn-star for my music."
- "Dawson's Creek, yep, I think I'm gonna like that show. "
- We are joined here on stage by Martin Luther King."
- "He's (David Helfgott) kissing you and rubbing you. And there was one time he grabbed my dick. He didn't know that he was doing it. I was just standing there a little uncomfortable. But he's really nice."
- About being in silverchair "Sometime I wish we never did it at all. And other times I think it’s pretty great we’re getting these sort of opportunities and I wonder what I’d be complaining about if I wasn’t in silverchair."
- "If spit lands on you, you’re allowed to come up on stage and dance naked, but only naked. Hey, I don’t care if anything lands on me, here, take a shot, I really don’t give a fuck just not while I’m playing though because it puts me off. Every mother fucker JUMP!!!!"
- "I've never practiced. I only practiced when I was learning classical and that's only 'cause I didn't want toget in trouble with my teacher." haha, this sounds like me!!
- "Put your hands up if you’re a prostitute! Put your hands up if you’re a homosexual! Put your hands up if you’re a lesbian! Put your hands up if you’ve had sex!!!!!!....with an endangered species of tiger, ‘cos Ben used to have sex with his pet white tiger, but then we found out from the animal liberationists that it wasn’t cool. So then we invested in a cat, and we only kiss cats ‘cos cats are cute. You’re a pretty politically correct audience."
- "We dance with our dads in nightclubs."
- "Keep pulling your dick cause you obviously enjoy it."
- "When in doubt, lie."
- "Ben’s got new shoes because he’s not as naturally beautiful as me. (Everybody screams) This song is dedicated to Ben ‘cos I feel sorry him."
- "We're gonna be the rave revival band. We're gonna bring back rave, it'll be heaps good. It's the new sensation sweeping the nation"
- "We're not into the whole rock star crap thing that a lot of bands seem to get tied up in, we're just people that play in a rock band and then go home and eat food."
- "Yeah, we're going on tour with TLC!"
- What do you do in your spare time? "Sleep" What do you do on the plane, do you sleep as well? "Yup!"
- Does touring with your parents cramp your style? "We don't have style to cramp."
- When asked about an orange fern, "On the bottom of it, it's an animal, it is, it really is, it just sits there and takes in the music."
- Saying to crowd,"You guys, you should all be rocking now, are you all rockin' or are you stil cold? Are you cold?" Yeah! "Why the fuck aren't you jumping then?!?! You ready to jump? Every single fucking one of you ready to jump? Even the people on the little hills, with their penis in hand? Ready? Alright, we're gonna jump and if you don't jump. If everyone in this fuckin' place isn't jumping, we're gonna play the Australian national anthem 3 times in a row."
- Do you like making videos? "Sometimes it's alright, like the first 3 takes are good, but then when it gets to the 50th take you start getting really pissed off."
- "They [the record company] say the're expecting [Freak Show to sell] around 52 million. That's just in Australia! Everyone's gonna buy 3."
- "We go home and, all of a sudden we've got 4 different colors of hair, and the beach has gone purple. And the schools turned into a museum and girls have penises."
- "We stayed home and ate rice bubbles, Kellogg's rice bubbles [I think he means rice crispies]. They're the crafiliest breakfast cereal on earth. Snap Crackle Pop, that's what each of them is called. Snap Crackle Pop cuz when you poor the milk in it goes kik kikikik."
- Talking about trashing hotel rooms "Whatever you do, you always gotta pay for it. You can't really get anything out of it. If you pick up the TV and chuck it out a window, then it's broken. And you don't have any TV for the rest of the night."
- "I've got herpes and all other different diseases."
- Any strange fan experiences? "Umm... we had this guy one time outside the bus who painted himself blue and he actually had white underpants on and no hair and he was yelling out "I love you Ben!, I love you Ben!" and that was pretty weird.......That didn't really happen, that was just... I thought we might answer the question with something good"
- "Yes, I have got a girl's haircut. I'm in touch with my feminine side. We have this on going competition about who can get the gayest haircut. My friend Jason has just kicked my ass by getting a layered feather-cut like in that movie 'Pretty In Pink'."
- "Ben is obsessed with breasts. When he can't get a girl he plays with his own, or if he's really bored, he plays with mine. "
- "Can I get a hallelujah?"
- "Yeah, we get lots of frogs thrown at us, but we don't feel bad because we enjoy the company."
- "Yeah, we fight ALL the time. It's cool, we like it.. we love it"
- About their band name..."Well, first it was Short Elvis actually, THEN it was Innocent Criminals, then it was Penis Pulling Remrods of Death, then it was Speed Muffin, then it was Big Fat Llama,then it was..."
- "Yeah, like Chris will want to go out for tea at a Mexican place and I'll want to go out for tea somewhere else and Ben wants to go somewhere else and we all go.. I don't want to go there! and then we end up sitting in the hotel eating..."
- What careers would you guys choose if you weren't in music? "I'd sell apples and eat the spares."
- "I'm not a social butterfly."
- When asked what silverchair would be doing 5 years from now "It all really depends, we could be still playing music in silverchair or we could be...asleep."
- "A lot of people think, 'Oh, it must be really good to see all the world' and stuff, and we're like 'Must be'."
- "I have lots of phlegm, lots of snot. Yeah, snot--snot, snot...and lots of phlegm."
- "Well, we're gonna play... um a cover... a Minor Threat song and Jerry, Tom... Jerry?! (laughs) Tom and Jerry, yeah, just joking, it's Jeremy(from Handsome) we're gonna play Minor Threat..."
- "Hey, we have a cool trick to do. If you're in a shop and the girl that is serving you is being, well, a real... bitch, here's a thing to say to her. After you have received your goods -- only AFTER you have received your goods, you say to her 'thankslut' instead of 'thanks a lot.' Ya get it? 'Thankslut?' Anyway..."
- "I'm going to make up a song right now. Usually it's easier but today's not a good day. Calgary [A city, that i live by]... is fun for me, to have a tea... or take a pee!"
- "Eat a beaver save a tree"
- "Thanks, that's our only hit. That's when we were an Australian teenage grunge sensation. Those were the good ol' days. Now we play rock. Now we're just a rock band. No specific genre. According to the press, we're rock. But we still consider ourselves a teenage grunge sensation from Australia."
- "This is our number one grunge hit, this song is bigger than the Beatles." Plays tomorrow.
- "It's the ugly brother of hanson."
- Do your parents know where you are right now? "Nuh-uh"
- Best movie: "Pulp fiction" Worst movie "I have no worst"
Group Conversations
- What's your favorite porn video that you take on the bus?
D:"I don' know porn videos well enough to know their names. When there's
inspiration needed, you flick it on, but I don't know any movie titles!"
B: "We saw this one that one of the guys who works for us purchased while we were
in New York- it was called Heavy Humpers. Just from the title, you can guess what
it was all about. There were very large ladies doing very large things...
C: "...With very large objects!"
B: "It was quite disgusting. Funny though..."
- C: Don't do that[to daniel, who's making apples collide together], you'll bruise 'em, you dickhead.
D: Nah, it'll just make them softer...so you won't hurt your teeth when you bite into them.
C: Apples are meant to be hard, soft apples suck.
- Ben: Has anyone ever told you, you look like Kurt Cobain Daniel?
D: No, no-one's ever said it, that I look like Kurt Cobain, no.
B: What would you do if someone was to say?
D: Oh, he's a good looking man, I'd probably take it as a compliment, I'd really like it, I think.
- Have you ever been offered heroin on tour?
Ben and Dan: "No."
Why are you smiling Dan?
D: "I haven't!"
B: "Yeah, really, Johns. He's screwing chicks every night, using heroin. Er,
please don't put that in there!"
- Who has the hygiene problem?
B: " Definately Chris!"
C: "What?!"
B:"Those babies you give birth to! We've definately got some pregnancy problems-
within the rhythm section anyway!"
D: "Ben's feet! He's got a certain pair of shoes that he wears for ever show.
When you play the drums, you sweat lots and lots, and he's worn the same shoes for
four years!"
- C: I could've been a plumber, I s'pose, I probably would have done an apprenticeship.
Ben [mocking Chris]: Yeah, you could've been a pretty good plumber, I reckon.
C: But fuck that, sticking your hand up sewers all day checking out why people's toilets are overflowing.
B: Yeah. You'd be better off playing in a rock band. It's not a bad job. Imagine Chris as a plumber...
- What's the most pseudonym you've used to check into a hotel with?
C: "You know that movie Boogie Nights? We all use the porn star names out of that."
D: "And whenever you go to the desk for your room key and the receptionist has seen the film, when they ask,'What name?', they look at you and go[gives dissapproving look']. 'Uh, just joking- it's not real!"
- Are there any songs that you now feel embarassed about, having written them
where you were so young?
B:"Just one-"Cicada'!"
D: "'Cicada', we fucking hate it!"
- B:They(fans)could be, um, 3 yrs old to....86 yrs old, we wouldn't care.
D:What about if they were 87?
B:I don't...oh...shut up
- C:Early on, Ben and Daniel were playing with each other....
D:We were playing with each other....
C:Well, not playing with each other....
- D:There's a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea
B:Um... what?
D:That's all I've got to say (laughing)
B:Daniel's drinking tea at the moment, that's why he said that I think
- When asked "If you could tour with anyone who would it be?"
D:Robert Johnson
B:Who's that?
D:(laughing) I think he's dead
- B:Mosh pits in Australia everyone just is out infront of the and they just jump up anddown and that's all they do is jump up and down, but in the States there's like a circle and people just like run around in these big circles and theres all...
D:(interrupts) I think they know, you don't have to explain what they do cause they're American
B:Ahh, shut up!
- Interviewer: What happens on the way from the club to the bus, do[girls] like, swoop down on you guys or anything?
C: Yeah, they're like deerhawks
I: So, do you guys have any plans for the millenium...?
D: yeah, we're gonna swoop on the millenium like deerhawks
- D: Sabbath is probably my biggest influence
B: No Led Zep would be your biggest influence Daniel
D: No trust me, they're second!!
B: No they're not!!!
D: Shut up
- What's your favourite subjects?
C: Lunch
B: (laughing) yeah, break
Some interviewer dude: Study hall
B: uhmm... yeah (sarcastically)
D: umm, next question
- C: We're not really the kind of people you could call druggies but you know if people are willing to go and abuse their bodies like that, I mean it's their choice, it might not be right but...
B: If they want to do it they can, It's up to them, but personally we don't do that kind ofstuff
D: We smell flowers
- A caller at an interview says: Hi, first of all I'd like to say Daniel, we have the same birthday
D: yeah!
Interviewer: What day is that?
caller: April 22nd
B: Are you a Taurus?
caller: yeah
D: uh... no! (sarcastically)
- Interviewer: Well you know the cool thing is...there is a lot of people here in the States that actually look up to you guys and what you've done and how you made music a part of their lives, they look up to you as something to aspire to... so I think that's pretty cool too, at least on this side of the world
D: Yeah
Interviewer: You don't have to respond, I just had to say that
D: Oh, I was just going to say.. yeah, thanks
- Announcer: You can’t convince Daniel and Ben that all those teenage girls are screaming for them.
D: I bet you Lenny Kravitz or someone famous is standing behind us, and then they start screaming "Ah look! There’s gonna be someone famous behind these 2 losers!" Ya reckon?
B: Yeah.
D: See.
- Interviewer: what happens [when your parents stop touring with you]?
D: That'll be unreal! We're gonna run amuck.
C: I must say, I tried writing on my own, but it really sucked.
B: We do feel older-- in fact, we're a bunch of old geezers now.
Other Peoples Quotes on silverchair
- "silverchair an easy band to like. They take themselves seriously, but not to the point of Radiohead or U2. On the other hand, they're not Frenzal Rhomb." -- Journalist from Massive Magazine
- "I think there are people out there who don't take the band seriously because they had such huge success at such an early age. I have been very lucky to have worked with some of the most talented musicians in the world, and I would have to put silverchair right up there with the best, becausenot only are they naturally gifted. The chemistry between them is very special, and rare to find." -- Nick Launay (silverchairs producer)
- "[Silverchair] were great! First of all these guys are some of the coolest guys to hang out with, and secondly they ROCK! Their new record is really good too, especially "Emotion Sickness." -- Noodles of the Offspring
- "Nobody is more slapstick, fall-down funny than Daniel Johns from Silverchair. That guy is like Curly from 'The Three Stooges' all the time, just silly, silly, silly" -- Mark Hoppuss, Blink
- "silverchair, a few years ago as they had just turned 19 and were on their first tour without chaperones we were able to teach them that Peach Schnapps is not a good idea." -- Dave Genn, Matthew Good Band (When asked "who has been your favourite band to tour with and why?")