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Daniel Paul Johns (born 22 April 1979) is an Australian musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the former front man and lyricist of the rock band Silverchair. Johns is also one half of The Dissociatives with Paul Mac, one half of DREAMS with Luke Steele, and released his first solo album, Talk, in 2015. In 2007, Johns was ranked at number 18 on Rolling Stone‘s list of The 25 Most Underrated Guitarists.

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Daniel Johns about Conflict:

I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to ...
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Daniel Johns about Happiness:

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

Daniel Johns about Control:

Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything ...
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Daniel Johns about Time:

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

Daniel Johns about Year:

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

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Daniel Paul Johns (born 22 April 1979) is an Australian musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the former stomach man and lyricist of the stone band Silverchair. Johns is next one half of The Dissociatives considering Paul Mac, one half of DREAMS past Luke Steele, and released his first solo album, Talk, in 2015. In 2007, Johns was ranked at number 18 on Rolling Stone‘s list of The 25 Most Underrated Guitarists.

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Daniel Johns about Like:

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

Daniel Johns about Time:

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

Daniel Johns about Animals:

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.

Daniel Johns about Life:

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.

Daniel Johns about Myself:

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.

Daniel Johns about Happiness:

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

Daniel Johns about Conflict:

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.

Daniel Johns about Risk:

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

Daniel Johns about Time:

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

Daniel Johns about Home:

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

Daniel Johns about Sales:

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

Daniel Johns about Best:

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.

Daniel Johns about Music:

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

Daniel Johns about Positive:

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

Daniel Johns about Control:

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

Daniel Johns about Someone:

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

Daniel Johns about Time:

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

Daniel Johns about Doctor:

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

Daniel Johns about Year:

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

Daniel Johns about Expectations:

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

Daniel Johns about Life:

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

Daniel Johns about Done:

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

Daniel Johns about Me:

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

Daniel Johns about Hate:

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

Daniel Johns about Band:

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

Daniel Johns about First:

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