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
backed
With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.
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.
record though
We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.
ballroom music time
I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.
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.
touring
The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.
changed since
Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.
few met
We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.
animal years body
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.
beard enough grows
Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner
animal talking people
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.
records lucky arthritis
I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.
sanctuary hell smooth
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
night periods certain
It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.