Daniel Johns
Daniel Johns
Daniel Paul Johnsis an Australian musician, singer, and songwriter. Best known as the former front man of the rock band Silverchair, Johns is also one half of The Dissociatives with Paul Mac and, in 2007, was ranked at number 18 on Rolling Stone's list of The 25 Most Under-rated Guitarists...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth22 April 1979
CityNewcastle, Australia
CountryAustralia
band black considered fun good music ourselves playing sabbath time
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.
backed
With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.
changed since
Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.
touring
The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.
eating felt kinda second stopped
Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.
ballroom music time
I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.
record though
We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.
sarcasm ice people
People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.
art people form
A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable
fall long house
Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
people effort records
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.
doctors arthritis
So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.
smart dumb middle
None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.
fans bigs groupie
There are no big groupie fans or anything.