Daniel Johns

“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.”

“Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.”

“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.”

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

“We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.”

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

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

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

“None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

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