"It's the two timeing rock melon"
"Ben bought them for me." [colourful socks that say, "I'm just a shy guy with a big dick"]
"Being in a traveling rock band you meet a lot of people, and see lots of different things and places that are just really different than what you're used to. And a lot of the people you meet act differently towards you because you're in a rock band and you're famous. It's like you're treated like freaks. People stare and talk about you and all that. It's not a bad thing -- it's really heaps of fun!"
"Do you know the story of our lives? It's hurry, hurry...... wait..... hurry, hurry...... hang on.... wait."
"Could someone please get Ben a date? He's getting frisky."
"If we did [star in a movie] we would be the worst actors ever."
"Don't be a dumbass and step outside naked, coz your friends will lock you out. Trust me, I know from experience."
"When Daniel goes onstage and he sees, like, and ugly female, he has this reaction to just scream, and like, I reckon it's heaps funny coz the crowd thinks it's cute, but they don't know what he's screaming about."
"You don't want to hear Ben sing..."
"Daniel was over at my house. After school we'd go past my house, and we'd always come in and have a drink, then he'd go home. And like, Daniel's mum was at my house, and she ran out and said, 'They won! They won!' We were just crazy, running around going berserk. It was so exciting."
"Hopefully there's enough familiar stuff in there to please people who liked our other albums, but enough different stuff to keep it interesting for everyone. It's taken us ages to get this album [Neon Ballroom] right, so now we're just looking forward to being able to get out there and play some gigs!"
"Do a fishy, do a fishy!"
"Americans seem to run around and hammer each other."
"Shit, I didn't get to see the Fonz!"
"Daniel is going to drain his schlong."
"Sausages on the BBQ kick ass!"
"Never fall asleep on the balcony of your hotel naked."
"Don't be a faggot, Danny! Keep driving!"
"We were laughing, cause he almost had to get his eyebrow shaved." [talking about when Daniel got hit in the head w/ a water bottle]
"There was this guy, right? Walks into the bar with his dog and says, 'Look, I'll give anybody 50 bucks if they can make my dog do something.' And, uh.. So there's people in the bar, and this dude comes up and he goes, '50 bucks and I'll make my dog do something.' So he goes, 'Yeah, give me your dog.' He takes the dog and threw it on the fire and said, 'Get off.'"
"I'm not gonna die."
"I think that everyone gets that for the entire period of time that they are in there. I don't think it matters who you are, you are going to get bagged by someone. It doesn't really bother me if people say that I'm a dickhead or something like that. I just say, 'Oh well, I'm a dickhead then.'"
"Let me outta the room... I gotta piss!"
"Who's Nirvana?"
"The only reason we were compared to Nirvana was Daniel's hair."
"Why? Why do you want Ben? I guess he has nice, silky hair."
"Isn't Ben gorgeous when he sings?"
"Ben Gillies sucks."
"We have a good sponsorship deal with Huggies."
"My mum snores."
"I know what Ben's fantasy is... It's not very fit for radio."
"Ben... he's my hero. He's my true hero. I just wish I could be like Ben sometimes."
"Ben's got a major leak in his ass."
"Went to spit - and spat on myself."
"We used to annoy old grandmas in the street."
"You just kinda put on your shorts and your crotch is hanging out."
"Gillies is the man. He's the man of the band. Deadset, he was born to do it. If he wasn't in a band, he'd be a pimp, controlling the action."
"You come back to Australia and realise how lucky you are to live here, and not somewhere like South America. When you get home you're kinda kissing the ground."
"I haven't paid for anything I'm wearing right now, except for my underwear. The shoes are my dad's, the socks someone bought me, and the shirt and shorts I got given."
"You see... my vocal cords only allow me 2 hours of talking a day, so I kind of have to limit it."
"No glossy photos!"
"No, I want to give Ben a mohawk. I reckon he'd have the best mohawk if we cut that!"
"That was bloody freezing. In his studio he(David Letterman) has it really cold, I don't know why. He must get really hot. It was kinda strange because we came on, played one song, he shook our hands and that was it."
"There's never been any negative stuff except losing stuff at the airport. We always seem to lose stuff wherever we play in Canada or anywhere, so..."
"Why the fuck would we want to sound like Nirvana? That question is starting to piss me off."
"Bedhead was a horrible thing."
"I don't know how much money my parent's make!"
"Can't sing to save myself."
"Chris is the lovelist, sweetest, kindest person I've ever met. From Chris."
"I'd just say people don't want anyone good, or to have an Australian band do well. I don't give a crap how much shit they give us, 'cause a lot of its not true. A lost of people are making up stuff and being very critical of how young we are, or that we'll only be one hit wonders or whatever, but everyone cops it, so we're just getting our little serving."
"It was hell!" [meeting Helmet]
"We just froze our butts off, because there was a lot of sleet and snow."
"My best dish is three minute noodles"
"Movies are only cool for when you are bored."
"London was good, because there was a few Australians in the crowd. Frankfurt really sucked - it was fun, but it was, like, press everywhere and cameras in your face the whole way through. So it sucked the big one for a while. Apart from that, it was all good."
"I've read the first few pages of 'Hammer of the Gods' and that was enough."
"Ben's got this aim in life to piss everybody off, and get people cut. He's very good at it."
"It's funny to hear people say you're a rock star, because when I think of a rock star, I kind of think of this arrogant, stuck-up person that's too good for everyone and no good for anyone else."
"I don't own a Nirvana album, or a Pearl Jam one."
"He doesn't need psychiatric help, if that's what you wanted to know."
"University was never in the cards. I think it is there if you want to be a lawyer or something like that, which I don't plan to be because I don't have the brains."
"Well, if you see a record of ours, you can buy it if you want, but you don't have to, because you might hate us."
"We never talk about silverchair at school. School and silverchair are two separate things."
"When we first walked into the Triple J studio we were like, our eyes wouldn't keep closed, we were all excited. We just talked about it for ages after that."
"I don't know. I'm the same as all those other sixteen-year-old kids who don't know what they are going to do with the rest of their lives. If things are happening, silverchair could go for years, something could happen like what happened to Led Zeppelin or something like that or we could just die out in a year or so."
"Danny boy, is about to go for a ride."
"There you go."
"Well.. it was..... are you there? Oh, ok...."
"That's a shit show." [Dawson's Creek]
"I'm not Ben, I'm Chris *fake evil laughter*"
"Weet-a-bix."
"Elvis Presley is alive. I saw him the other day, yeah, he does [live in Newcastle]. He lives next door."
"Americans.... uh.... run around with their fists up and sorta hammer each other... and Australians tend to jump up and down a bit more."
"School's just to fill in time, I think."
"There's never been any negative stuff except losing stuff at the airport. We always seem to lose stuff wherever we play in Canada or anywhere, so..."
"Ben, every morning, normally if there's eggs on the breakfast buffet, he'll have, like, a boiled egg with like a runny yolk, and he dips his toast with it."
"I once had a cat that I loved very much. One day I accidentally let her fall into the swimming pool, the other day she ran away."
"School's just sort of to fill in time, I think."
"Why do we destroy all our gear when we could be giving it to them? The answer is, we don't own it."
"Ben is very tidy, Daniel is very happy go lucky, and I'm somewhere in between."
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