Words matter. These are the best Daniel Johns Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.
I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.
We were perceived as a post-grunge band.
I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I’ll appreciate my health if I get better.
I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.
I’m lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.
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.
The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we’ve done.
There are no big groupie fans or anything.
It just makes everything more pleasurable when you’ve got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.
Touring doesn’t kill me and I can handle it.
I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.
When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent’s record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
Though, since the first record, I’ve dramatically changed my expectations for our records.
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.
There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.
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.
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.
I know if I don’t tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.
I wrote… Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.
