Daniel Johns

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. ”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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