"I didn't call you a dickhead. In fact, I love you." [to Daniel]
"He [David Helfgott] kept mumbling, 'Very different, very different, very different'."
"The bands we admired we're groups that made great album after great album. That's what groups like Led Zeppelin did. I'm certainly not comparing us to them in any way -- but they were an influence. You have to learn from your influences, and I think we have. We want to be doing this ten years from now -- maybe even 20 years from now. We know how important every album is. We're not just a bunch of kids anymore -- we're a rock and roll band that people expect some great things from."
"You wanna go halves on a baby?"
"Practice makes perfect, and we've been getting a lot of practice. We're not perfect yet, though."
"The only way to play drums is hard. You can't play drums and not hit 'em, or go in there and be a pansy."
"My head is cold."
"I'm feeling good... I feel like sex."
"A guy asked me what I'd do if I got a boner in the classroom, and had to stand up in front of the class. I said, "I don't know!" I thought it was funny, though."
"Briefs are like, when you wear briefs it's like someone's got a hold of you 24 hours a day."
(waves a bag of sliced ham under Daniel's nose)"Go on, get some pork on your fork!"
"We just wanted to go over to his(Daniel's) house with a lump of meat and go, 'EAT IT!'"
"No one likes me. No one wants to go out with me. I'm so upset."
"We get cold sores all over our bodies."
"Don't say the F word, it's rude."
"Daniel is definitely not gay!"
"I gave Daniel a black eye!"
"Mr. Stay-at-home-and-don't-have-a-girlfriend!(to Daniel)"
"I like girls, they make me feel funny. That's why I like Daniel, he's a femme. He makes me feel funny."
"Come on you faery, I wanna go bungee jumping!"
"Daniel's just a horny camper."
"You are dumb. You are dumb. I think you're dumb. I'm just puting my opinion forth, I think you're dumb, dumb, dumb." (directed at Daniel)
"Daniel is an idiot"
"Daniel, I could cut your head off for that song."[Cicada]
"Teenyboppers are mental"
"I like it kinky."
"I'm not joking. Does anyone want a date?"
"And I've got an inny belly button!"
"Inny belly buttons rule!"
"Here's one, here's one! When my boyfriend and I have sex, his penis sometimes slips out!"
"How's this? I taught my best friend how to seduce my husband!"
"I put a bra on but it was too small. I think I need a bigger cup size."
"Oh look! There it is! Look! Look! It's the local erotic shop!"
"I think Art's(Everclear) daughter could kick Daniel's ass."
"Oh, shut up you geek!(towards Daniel)"
"Sometimes Daniel always says how muscley he is, being very sarcastic 'cause he's like a puny bastard-mega skinny... He picks fights with me and Chris but we always show him who's boss."
"Music has pretty much taken over my life. I told my dad I wanted to play in a band and make lots of money. He told me I should get out of my fantasy world because it was a million-to-one chance. Now when I'm playing guitar or drums and he tells me to go do my studies, I tell him I can't--because I'm working. He just looks at me, shakes his head, laughs, and says, 'You lucky bastard.'"
"Life's a bitch, and so am I, so get used to it."
"Well there was one day he [Daniel] was walking down the street, this guy looked at him, then I looked at johns and he started crying. I put my arm around him. I, you know, I lent a shoulder. I'm just joking."
"Ok. One time Chris...did this striptease for Daniel...*laughs*...and afterwards they had sex."
"We wanted to put a piano part on the song, and someone said, 'What about David Helfgott?' We were like, 'Shit, yeah!'"
"Can you say 'caw-fee' for us please? Yeah, we think the american accent is cool!"
"We like plane food."
"We're still shitting in our pants."
"Shut up, please mum! I'm the one doing the bloody interview!"
"Aw, shit, I just farted.. Fuck it stinks too."
"I think Daniel wants to know what the question means!"
"That's um, mass, um, space, then debate."
"You're a dillbrain." (to Daniel)
"You're a wanker." (to Daniel)
"I'm sorry, Mr. Intellectual." (to Daniel)
"I like any woman. Older, younger. You know, a bit of variety. That's always good!"
"Fuck's a wonderful word."
"I heard this one(rumour) that I have a small penis. That's just fuckin' ridiculous."
"I promise that if Mariah comes I won't stare at her tits."
"When we were in Townsville we had a day off so we decided to go to Magnetic Island for the day. We hired some mopeds and went burning around the island. While burning up one hill that had some gravel, I lost control of my front wheel and then it was all over, I went arse over tit. The bike was wrecked."
"Just remember this, if you misquote me - on anything - I'll come looking for you. Know what I mean?"
"I worship Jon Bonham. But he's kind of dead."
"Darker music turns you into a hardcore motherfucker!"
"Does anybody wanna have sex? I'm not joking!"
"Good luck to them, no more comments on that band."[Savage Garden]
"I really don't take any notice of girls in the audience. I really don't. I just play. I've got a shit view anyway. A couple of cymbals. I can't see jack."
"We'll be a teen band until we're 20."
"Our dads are cool. If we did something stupid and hurt ourselves, they'd just go 'you dickhead, I told you not to do that!' And they don't care if we swear. Because they know that if they weren't there, we'd be doing it anyway."
"Uh, I think you should, uh, rephrase that!"
"It was pretty funny when all our voices were breaking. It'd be like, 'Hello, uh, UHHH! You know, like, squeaks."
"Shut up! You're making me sound bad!"
"Shut up mum!"
"Shut up, Daniel."
"It's pretty funny when we go out to countries where the drinking age is 13 or 14, and we all go to bars and order and drink some stuff. Our parents will go, 'Hey!' And we go, 'We are legal to drink here!'"
"Do you mind if we go to sleep?"
"I was only joking, I'm 16. It is pretty cool that you believed me that I was 18. Actually, I was joking again, I'm 10."
"Put in that, 'Anyone that's looking for a good time, come to room 352 at the Hyatt after the gig.'"
"Americans are just like psychos. They run around in big circles and punch people, and there's always a leader. There's like, one big heavy dude just walking around going, 'get out of the way, or I'll break you!'"
"Sometimes we just go back to the hotel and sleep because we're really tired. Other times we'll be really hyped up and want to go out and do something -- basically make our own fun. Because we're all teenagers -- and you know what teenagers get up to -- we influence the older people to do teenage stunts, which is pretty funny. I won't mention any names, because we'll probably get in trouble, but we took this guy egging... like we were egging all these houses. It was too funny. Just being a hooligan, being an idiot really -- but nothing illegal."
"We haven't really got to see that much of America because when we're touring there's always interviews to do or whatever, but the things I like most about America are the food -- nachos! -- and the roller coaster at Magic Mountain. The thing I liked least was the cold weather when we were there in February -- it's much better in summer."
"Honestly, I think we've got the weirdest crowds in the whole world, because if you come to one of our shows sometimes you can have like 80 percent males, 20 percent females and it's sort of totally nuts. It's like really sick and really violent and sometimes it gets really dangerous as well. But other times you've got 80 percent females and 20 percent guys and it's kind of really weird, and sometimes you have like all these different kinds of people. You have teenage girls, older girls, young guys and older guys and all the people in between. And sometimes you even have 40-year-olds. It's weird."
"We saw this one [porno] that one of the guys who works for us purchased while we were in New York- it was called Heavy Humpers. Just from the title, you can guess what it was all about. There were very large ladies doing very large things..."
"I love it how Garth Brooks smashes his guitar together, it just rules you know?"
"Some guy said to me that we sound like nirvana and wound up in the hospital. Just kidding."
"He is pretty good looking." [talking about Chris]
"Someone else fucking drive..."
"We're getting away from those losers!"
"Life's a bitch, and so am I, so get used to it."
"Now take our clothes off! YEAH!"
"Daniel Johns sucks! Daniel Johns sucks!"
"You know, cameras can get so annoying."
"Date a fan? We don't have any fans, but if we did, probably not."
"Daniel is actually an idiot."
"Ten years from now, I'll probably be an accountant or something, maybe a rocket scientist. That's what I'm aiming for. I've got a few degrees, I'm actually going to Yale, yeah. I'm pretty intellectual, yeah, you know, whatever you call it."
"Anyway, we're looking at a career of being wankers."
"If any of us gets big-headed, the other two will pile on him."
"I thought it was a part of rock and roll, like 'Cool! Blood!'. When we got back to the hotel, we took pictures of Daniel with all this blood gushing out of his skull." [talking about the Santa Monica incident when Daniel was hit in the head with a full bottle]
"My penis is pierced."
"It was cool! So cool, that roller coaster, the Viper! Me and Johnsie went on it four times. But I held on. No way did I put my hands in the air! Magic Mountain was probably the highlight of our trip, and that was our second day here, so it was really bad. It would have been better if we'd a lot more time. We only had about two hours time there, but we got four trips on the Viper, so I was happy." [talking about the Viper at Magic Mountain]
"You got koalas crawling all over you!"
"Sliver by Nirvana -- I'm not saying I like Nirvana, but I was just curious to hear the song -- and Berlin Chair by You Am I. We were ringing up radio stations, and those were the two we wanted to request, so we told Chris to write them down abbreviated, and instead of writing Sliver and Chair, he swapped the letters and it became 'silverchair.' And there you go."
"I want to be your friend." [to Daniel]
"I think that last time, a lot of people thought that we were just a one-shot wonder. This album is basically gonna shove it in their faces and say' look you fuckers, we're here to stay.'"
[Question: "Can you burp the ABC's?"]
"Uh, Hang on... No, I can't do it... You have to give me a while... No, I can't... Uh....
[burping] *A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I*... no, I'm not going to do it."
[Question: "What's your favorite episode of Beavis and Butthead?"]
"What's it called... "Chicks and Stuff", I think that's it. "Chicks and Stuff," when
they go to the nudest colony. Actually, there's so many good Beavis and Buttheads, it's not
funny. And there's another good one where they donate sperm, that's a good one. The one
where something happens, I think the power goes down where Beavis & Butt-head live or something. And they don't realize it and their TV goes down. And then they go around and walk the streets and look for a TV. And then, like, the hippy dude, the teacher at school, makes them direct traffic at some traffic lights and they're telling all the cars to go at once. So they end up with this big crash, and you see this guy's head pop out of one car. And they ask him what's going on, and they ask him if they can use his TV. That was pretty funny."
"We get compared to Nirvana a lot, and that just pisses us off totally."
"We can do school work on a plane. Actually when we get home we usually catch up what we can. However, some of the teachers are real bastards. But we got some really cool teachers. They just say, 'Yeah, we know what you do after school, so don't worry about it.' They know about the band and they are really into it."
"Bloody hell!"
"I never really liked Minor Threat. Actually, I kind of thought they sucked. And then Daniel came into practice one day and said, 'Oh, let's play a song it's called Minor Threat.' And I just thought, 'I don't want to play that fucking song!' And then I said, 'Yeah, I will do it.' And then we were playing it. And it's, like, grand and I ended loving this song and started listening to more of their stuff. I love them and they are great."
"All right. This is Ben Gillies from silverchair and you're just about to hear 'Freak' off our new album Freak Show and here it is -- FROCK!"
"We reckon the music industry is kind of like travelling freak shows. 'Cause, you know, travelling around from town to town, unpacking and packing up, and you meet all these freaks along the way. You meet good people as well but you do meet a lot of idiots. I'm not mentioning any names. [laughs]"
"Before we go on stage, all we really do is warm up usually... do some stretches, and drink something that makes you hyper like coke -- plenty, heaps and heaps of coke -- or just caffeine."
"I really don't know. His lyrics are pretty out there. Daniel's lyrics are pretty personal. They are mostly personal things, and I don't really know what they are all about. All of us are a band and I still don't have a clue what the hell he's on about! But I don't care. I like his lyrics and I think they are really good. I don't think it's the happiest stuff in the world. It's like in some of the songs, it's got dark music as well as the dark lyrics."
"Don't make me come in there Watto. Don't make me fucking come in there!"
"Look out for the baby!"
"We can go and play in front of 30,000 people and we wouldn't give a shit. We wouldn't be nervous or anything. But if we played in front of our friends we'd be like really embarrassed and really nervous."
"After the show in Germany, we were waiting in the band room and Marilyn Manson walks in and says, "Come on boys, we're going for a drink." We were drinking some weird drink like a Fireball or something. It was scotch with a bit of coke and some other spirit and we had shots of it. That was pretty cool. They were surprisingly down to earth, cool guys. If you saw them on stage you'd think they were psychos that go around killing chickens."
"We actually tried to see how many cartons of orange juice we could drink on the way over here [during their 20+ hour flight from Australia]. Our aim was 15 but like we fell asleep and we kind of lost track. But we got up to like eight or nine or something."
"We're all just dumb bastards. That's all there is to it."
"I was only joking, I'm 16. It is pretty cool that you believed me that I was 18. Actually, I was joking again, I'm 10."
"I'm probably the most sensible one in the band"
"You do go to heaven, but you come back as somebody else. But you can't remember who you were. If John Bonham (Led Zeppelin drummer) died a year earlier, that's who I would have asked to come back as...By the way, do you know exactly when he did die? When I first started listening to the Led Zeppelin's 'The Song Remains The Same' video, I thought John Bonham was like number one. I love him."
"Hey! I'm cute too!"
"We don't care how late it is, how late we get back, just as long as we get on the rollercoaster."
"I was thinking of becoming a gynecologist."
"I've got another idea. I can't remember what band it was, but the new thing to do was it's either chocolate or brown lipstick, and you put it all over the vocal microphones, and they go to sing and they've got their lips up against it, and so when they pull away, it looks like they've got shit all over their mouth. Also, another one is hot chilli, and when they pull away they go 'Yaaaah!'"
"Now take our clothes off! YEAH!"
"No, not yet!"
"Oh gee, um, thank you"
"Groove's the word."
"Poison... God help us all!"
"Shut up! You're making me sound bad!"
"I thought it was funny when the 15 year old bonked the, uhm, the 30... the 30... how old? 37 or something..." [Dawson's Creek]
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