Quotes from Daniel Johns

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

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

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.

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.

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

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

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.

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

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

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

We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

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.

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

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

There are no big groupie fans or anything.

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

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

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

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

I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

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

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