Daniel Johns famous quotes

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.
-- Daniel Johns

#Animal #Years #Needs

Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner
-- Daniel Johns

#Beard #Enough #Grows

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

#Home #Long #Scared

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

#Thinking #Doctors #Dying

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable
-- Daniel Johns

#Art #People #Form

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

#Crowds #Scared #Anxious

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

#Trying #Way #Corny

It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on,
-- Daniel Johns

#Rely

I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.
-- Daniel Johns

#Choices #Going Out #Vegan

I don't know if sitting home everyday is normal, but that's what I do.
-- Daniel Johns

#Home #Everyday #Sitting

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.
-- Daniel Johns

#Sanctuary #Hell #Smooth

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

#Wells

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

#Appreciate #Stay Positive #Get Better

Think what you want, this is what we are.
-- Daniel Johns

#Thinking #Want #What You Want

I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.
-- Daniel Johns

#Want #Boring #Social

Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.
-- Daniel Johns

#Tree #Feelings #Next

Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
-- Daniel Johns

#Fall #Long #House

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.
-- Daniel Johns

#Animal #Talking #People

There are no big groupie fans or anything.
-- Daniel Johns

#Fans #Bigs #Groupie

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.
-- Daniel Johns

#Touring #Kill Me #Handle

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

#Years #Three #Four

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.
-- Daniel Johns

#Hero #Negative

I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep
-- Daniel Johns

#Sleep #Bed #Minutes

I'll always remember 1995 as the year i found out Star Trek wasn't real
-- Daniel Johns

#Stars #Real #Years

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

#Get Well #Trying #Wells

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

#Running #Journey #People

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.
-- Daniel Johns

#Smart #Dumb #Middle

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

#Lucky #Records #Arthritis

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

#Doctors #Arthritis

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

#Home #Panic Attacks #Sweating

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.
-- Daniel Johns

#Purple #Parent #Records

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.
-- Daniel Johns

#Sympathy #School #People

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

#Attention #Records

Me and my dog are best friends.
-- Daniel Johns

#Dog #My Dog

There are a lot of wankers, and a lot of people who think they are really hardcore and cool but they're not.
-- Daniel Johns

#Thinking #People #Hardcore

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

#Night #Periods #Certain

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

#Neon #Hated

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.
-- Daniel Johns

#Years #Arthritis

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.
-- Daniel Johns

#People #Effort #Records

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.
-- Daniel Johns

#Stars #Night #Rocks