SILVERCHAIR: Spawn Again; Quotes [Daniel Johns]

"We're going to be the rave revival band. We're going to bring back rave. It's the new sensation sweeping the nation."

"In Australia, everyone's kind of an equal psycho. But in America, there's leaders of the pack."

"We're classic rockers -- The Eagles, Journey, The Doobie Brothers... yeah!"

"We're just going to follow every trend. We'll just jump on every single band wagon, so we can say we were a part of it... Just kidding."

"Quite the sporting nation, England."

"We're young and stupid."

"[Vegamite] Tastes like shit."

"We were playing to, like, two people. Sometimes we'd get our sister, or our mum to come watch us."

"Yeah, I just wanted to play guitar just 'cause it was something to do, and I wanted to be Ritchie Blackmore. Yeah, for sure. I wanted to do everything he did, and I used to sit my guitar down on the floor and play with my feet."

"You up in the tree, that's good moshing in the tree. We've never seen that before."

"A fat, rich prick. Yeah, and a poor guy takes him to a hotel and he keeps complaining because it's not up to his standards. So the poor prick tells him that he's got to wait 'till tomorrow until he can get out... and then... he can fuck off. Yeah." [what 'Tomorrow' is about]

"We don't get computers. We just know that, like, smart people have to use them, so we shouldn't do it."

"Ben plays with his balls."

"The paper got it wrong, because they're mental."

"It's [Abuse Me] also just saying, 'stuff you, stuff you!'"

"There's a lot of frogs in Australia, and we like to stomp on them."

"Ay, just getting a drink of water, Gillies! [gargles]"

"I would have grounded you for life for listening to techno."

"I'll have a coke, if they have coke in New Zealand."

"The first time we heard 'Tomorrow' on the radio, it was really embarrassing. We were in a car with a whole heap of our friends, and it came on. We turned it off as quick as we could."

"Magic Mountain, we are going, we can't be stopped. We are a machine, and we won't be turned off, 'till we've been to Magic Mountain."

"We don't try to convince people of anything. Think what you want. This is what we are. If you don't believe us, we say 'fuck you'!"

"I couldn't sleep until 6 o'clock. I've been jerking off for hours in my bed."

"We don't like rap or hip-hop music. I don't even classify it as a valid form of music. It's just a drum beat with some people talking."

"All the metal people are tough guys, and we're little weeds."

"Anything with intensity..... is good."

"I was kinda embarrassed by that stuff [people throwing bras and stuff onstage]. You never really get used to it."

"Ben is actually getting braces, because he's got a bit of a teeth problem.. a really bad tooth deformity. He just doesn't use his Colgate... doesn't brush."

"We're pretty much computer illiterate. I like looking at it when my brother's doing it, but I'm just not smart enough."

"There's a girl in the front row that's a lesbian, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, 'cause I'm a lesbian too!"

"We're not really big fans of the groupie, rock star, dickhead thing."

"I have a rock melon, anyway. I don't need a girlfriend."

"I'll probably wait until I'm 19 [to move out]. I want to enjoy 1 more year of getting my washing done for me."

"Some people think we'll be 15 forever. No, we were fucking 15 two years ago, dickhead!"

"Chris has a girlfriend of two years. Ben has many girlfriends, and I have a dog."

"Ben's got a fixation with females. Me and Chris are trying to hold him back, but he's an animal!"

"I thought it [Vienna] was an ice-cream."

"You want me to spit on you? You're fucking stupid! I've got herpes, and all other kinds of diseases."

"Whatever -- that's what you say in LA. You say WHATEVER!"

"Uhm... you've diconnected the power, which is cool."

"You guys are too fucking quiet! Yell! You gotta rock. You gotta rock the fucking house, 'cause you paid money. All right, you ready to rock? To Jump? And to fucking... be grungy?"

"We got here yesterday, and we just got here and went out for tea, and then we got back and had interviews, and then we watched movie on pay tv, and then we went to bed, and then we woke up and had more interviews today. [smiles, and gives thumbs up]"

"That was more punk than punk."

"Does anyone want any red Gatorade? Just don't get it in your hair, 'coz you get really sticky."

"They say Ugly Phil's a dick. I'm just telling it how it is, hey, it's good promo. Ugly Phil's a dick!"

"I'd sell apples, and eat the spares." [if not playing in a band]

"We smell flowers."

"There was, like, Reeses Pieces Peanut Butter crap, but we didn't like that."

"I bet you Lenny Kravitz, or someone famous is behind us, and they start screaming 'ah, it's someone famous standing behind those 2 losers!' You reckon?"

"People tried to pull themselves up on me when I was getting pulled down, and the button came off, and my pants around my ankles. But it was okay, because I was wearing boxer shorts, and I went to the hospital, and I was fine. I went to the hospital for about 5 hours, and it was really boring." [after stage-diving]

"First it was [the band's name] Short Elvis, actually. Then it was Innocent Criminals, then it was, uhm.. Penis Pulling Remrods Of Death, then it was Speed Muffin, then it was Big Fat Llama."

"We really just fucked up. No actually, we didn't fuck up, everyone fucked up except for us."

"Stop throwing fucking water bottles, or I'll come down and kick your fucking asses. The next water bottle that comes up and hits me in the fucking head, this guitar is worth at least 400 bucks."

"We were like really bored, coz we were just sitting backstage, and everyone was gone, so we just chucked food everywhere and, like, the room didn't look too good after it. It was pretty good fun, though."

"I played indoor soccer. Yeah, I took a fall. Well, I tackled this really big guy, and he was, like, really big, because we play against really big people, and uhm, he landed on me, and I landed on the ground. It was a hard floor, so it kinda hurt."

"Jesus, you're talking stupid. You look like a frog."

"Yeah yeah Boston, oh yeah mother fucker, oh yeah mother fucker. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Boys in the hood, yo. What's up ya'll, bro? Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh.. This is a song I'm singing about here, oh yeah, baby yeah."

"If someone falls, and they're kind of, you know, dying in pain, in agony, you pick them up and give them a kiss. Maybe suck they're penis."

"Rock on, continue to get older as the human race will progress, and turn into donkey's penises."

"Ben's a pretty foxy guy. I can't really say anything more about him, other than the fact that he's obsessed by sex poses."

"I like to raise my finger. Show's my masculine side. Shows how tough I am."

"Ben's always got his trousers around his ankles. There's something pornographic about him."

"As long as there's a fruit on the tour rider, I'm happy. I could eat fruit all day."

"I don't commit any major crimes. I'm a good boy."

"The only thing that'll be different [in the year 2000] is that every computer in the world is going to be fucked!"

"I’ll do it in a reef knot. I learnt them at scouts. I was a seconder at scouts, that’s second from a sixer. That’s my problem you see, I can never get to the motherfucking top."

"Ben, mind your language you little cunt."

"You're giving me a fucking horn."

"I've got a hole in my head... Fuck, there's blood coming from it."

"Being white, I can't really achieve the full Mr. T look."

"Thank you for all coming on a Sunday night. I'm sure 60 minutes had some good stories on, and you chose silverchair over 60 minutes, so thank you."

"If you want to take your clothes off, that's cool. We don't mind. If you want to do it, there's no stopping you. In fact, if you take your clothes off, feel free to make your way to the stage, and you can parade around, and we'll give you $10 each."

"We tend to have a lot of broken equipment, because we like to have sex with our monitors onstage."

"I hate Britney Spears! I hate her, and I hate her music!"

"On this album [Neon Ballroom] I was purely trying to please myself, and that was it. Musical masturbation."

"Fuck the security!"

"If I were a fisherman, I'd catch fish. If I were an octagon, I'd have many sides. If I were a prostitute, I'd fuck, and fuck, and fuck, and fuck, and fuck."

"You're not twelve! Hanson. Hanson's here everyone! Yeah! Hanson, come up on stage. Come up Hanson! Come up, come on! Hansons coming up! Whooo! Yeah! He's twelve, so he should be able to stage dive, no problem. Every mother fucker get down here. Come down... this way. He's what? The ugly brother. He's the ugly brother of Hanson. Come on, come down. Look, people in the back are getting squashed. Come this way, we gotta catch this Hanson boy. Come and catch, talk to Hanson. Hey Ben... Alright, come on. Come on! Come on! Get the fuck up here!"

"You're going to go boom boom jig, and I'm gonna rap."

"I'm going to make up a song right now. Usually it's easier, but today's not a good day. Calgary... it's fun for me, to have a tea... or take a pee!"

"We go home, and all of a sudden we've got 4 different colours of hair, and the beach has gone purple, and the schools have turned into a museum, and girls have penises."

"Have an apple -- A crispy, cold, green one."

"Hey, we have a cool trick to do. If you're in a shop and the girl that is serving is being, well, a real... bitch, here's a thing to say to her. After you have received your goods -- only AFTER you have received your goods, you say to her 'thankslut', instead of 'thanks a lot'. Ya get it? 'Thankslut?' Anyway..."

"At the time, we didn't really have a singer, and we just said 'someone's gotta sing' and I dont know, somehow it ended up being me, and I just sang with my face to the wall, cause I was too embarrassed to look out."

"Ben Gillies is just all muscle, no talent. Chris Joannou just has the best of both worlds. I'm sitting here in the winners circle, coz I've already won."

"Yes, I have got a girl's haircut. I'm in touch with my feminine side. We have this on going competition about who can get the gayest haircut. My friend Jason has just kicked my ass by getting a layered feather cut, like in that movie 'Pretty in Pink'."

"We were talking about the similarities between us and the Spice Girls and the Backstreet Boys, and so on. There's like a cute Spice, right, like Baby Spice, that's Sam, because he's innocent and new. Then there's Sporty Spice, who's like Chris, 'cause he's in good shape, works out and stuff, keeps himself well maintained. Ben is Scary Spice, 'cause he's a drummer, he's wild. And I'm Posh Spice, because I'm a bitch -- and I'm gonna be married to a famous soccer player."

"There's a misconception that Ben's cool. It's totally wrong. He's a dick! That's a joke..."

"Courtney Love wanted me pretty bad."

"Airports are so boring. Maybe we should open our own airport with lots of cool stuff to do, like movie theatres and arcade stuff. We could call it... the chairport."

"A Toyota Lateace Minivan. It's the best. It's poo brown, and heaps good. The chicks love it."

"Stop throwing shit. If you're gonna throw stuff, throw it at Ben, just don't throw it at Chris. He's a mean motherfucker and he'll kick your ass."

"Ben looks like a panda, and I look like a rat. Chris looks like a puppy. So sometimes we get a girl or two."

"Dubbo Zoo, in Australia, has some fascinating life forms."

"Man-nil-la... tastes like vanilla, someone tried to kill her, coz she stole my pillar!"

"We were just.... We're from Australia!"

"I'd love it if there were pictures of me with a mohawk. I'd be so proud."

"How strong is the glass?"

"If you touch me, I swear to God I'll combust!"

"It was called Mexican Walking Fish On Tripods. Mexican Walking Fish On Tripods is about this mexican walking fish who thought he was a camera, so he climbed up a tripod and just sat there, and lived on a tripod."

"Can you not talk so loud please? I can't hear the crunch of the food."

"Yeah? You want to go out on a date? Okay, I've got to get consent from my dog, but I think she'll be cool with it."

"As long as it looks cool, it doesn't matter how cheap something is."

"Shut up, Gillies, or I'll break you!"

"I found a packet of of chewing gum on the floor of the supermarket, when I was little, and put it in my pocket. That was pretty hardcore."

"I drank 2 bottles of red wine in 20 minutes at a party. I came home and passed out on my bed, and had to get up the next morning to go to school. My head was going to explode. I was spewing for a bit - for 2 hours constantly... I think Ben carried me home."

"I'm not gonna swear cuz my mum told me not to say fuck. My mum said to me... She said... 'Don't swear cuz no one's impressed by the word fuck'... This is what I say.. I said, 'FUCK YOU MUM!' -- Just kidding, mum, it's a joke... We're still friends."

"The other day, I was walking my dog, and my arms got a bit red, and I thought, 'Yeah! A bit of colour!'"

"Rock N Roll will never die!"

"I just wanted to warn you, I've been pumping iron. Hey! I'm not joking! I went to the gym! Do you wanna see me flex? Really? I'll wait till I'm getting up.. next year. Next... In five years time, I'll come back, you'll be scared!"

"I'll always remember 1995 as the year I found out Star Trek wasn't real"

"Keep pulling your dick, 'cause you obviously enjoy it."

"I don't think that our age really has that much to do with it, Either it's good music or it's not. There isn't any chart category for rock and rock bands made up of musicians in their teens, is there? I don't hear anyone going, 'Hey, that's really good -- for a 25-year-old.' The fans aren't going to spend their money on music that they don't like no matter who's making it or how old you may be."

"Yeah, but I lost though 21-16. I did alright though." [Talking about playing basketball with an R & B drummer, ganster in LA]

"We didn't sit down and say, 'Now we want to write some songs that don't sound anything like they're from Seattle,' it was never really a major influence"

"It's not that we're complaining about the bad side of our lives, it's just that we've always liked [our music] dark and kind of aggressive, So when I'm writing lyrics, I just write about bad things rather than good things."

"All I was doing was sitting up in my room and writing songs. I didn't go out just because of all the media kinda' crap that was going on. I didn't want to go out and have someone go, 'That's the guy from silverchair,' and fuck everyone else's fun up for the night. So I was just like, 'Fuck this, I'm just gonna sit in my room,' And once the whole Frogstomp thing was over, I started going out a bit more. When this album comes out, and if the media crap starts again, I'll probably sit in my room for another six months."

"He [The Fonz/Henry Winkler] was straight back there [points to an empty chair] and he had a purple jacket on, He still has the features, but he's not quite as cool."

"I think he [their manager] means that, a lot of people, when they're 17 or 18, are experimenting with a lot of drugs, doing a lot of rebellious stuff. One of the things that's kept us away from doing a lot of that kind of stuff is the fact that if the media finds out we're doing anything, we're fucked. So it restricts us from doing a lot of stuff that most of our friends are doing. You're always worried about, 'Oh fuck, I hope the paper doesn't find out about this.' Like the arrest [referring to the beach bust], If it had been any of our friends, they would have done a lot worse than what we did. They would have been driving the four-wheel-drive through the water and shit."

"No, I've never done that [stomped a frog]."

"I've never been interested in going to college. I always said once I finish school I'll concentrate on doing what I wanna do, and what I wanna do, you don't have to go to college for."

"I thought it would be cool to have a mohawk, but I'm not gonna get one."

"I think we could do this for a few years. And with our contacts now, we could probably get work -- you know, small jobs, $50 a go."

"We kinda make a little fire in the middle of the room, we burn stuff in a bin and we just dance around naked." [Talking about rituals before going onstage]

"If we sold 20 million albums, we wouldn't do any interviews. We wouldn't do another interview again. We wouldn't have to."

"I bought a XP 66 Ford, which is a real rockin' car. It's my idea of a real rock and roll mobile, and I love driving around in it. Sometimes I take my dog and we drive down to the beach, and just hang out. That's cool. If people see me and want to say hello, I say hello back. I'm still just Daniel from Newcastle."

"Are you all ready to jump? Even you in the little hills, penis in hand, are you ready to jump?"

"We support it cuz they [llama nation] look dumb."

"Rugrats kicks ass."

"We stuck tape over Ben's mouth so we couldn't hear him, but I drew a mouth on the tape so he'd still look normal."

"Can someone tell me why they put lemons in coke?"

"I stopped surfing, I wasn't good enough. I wasn't impressing any girls."

"I love Ben so much."

"If you are gonna come on the stage to perform rape, do it the right way, go for the penis."

"You can only be young once but you can be immature forever."

"Yo! Listen up because this is important! Actually, it's not important, but you should listen anyway. Actually, you probably don't want to hear it, so don't bother listening -- don't worry about it."

"Why are you all laughing? Do I have a booger?"

"Shut up, stupid!" [directed towards Ben]

"For all the people that think I'm on heroin, that think I'm gay, and think I fuck turtles -- fuck you!"

"Who's the fuckwit that threw the waterbomb at me? I just happen to be allergic to water, knobjockey!"

"I guess you do need to hear, but I just don't really care if I can hear or not when I'm 50 or 60... Oh no, I do actually! I care!"

"We can't give autographs. We just write our names."

"I like to piss on ducks when I'm bored."

"I don't know how a bra works."

"All right, um, I've got something to say and it's very important, so listen up. No, it's not important, but if you want, you can listen. Imagine, right, you're like laying in the sand, just laying there, just gettin' sandy, and you develop this really bad, like, fungusy rash. And you started scratching it and it went like yellow, green and whatever other colours fungusy rashes get. And you went to the doctor and they said there was nothing wrong. But it got worse and started coming off on the itchy carpet, and you realized you were allergic to sand and you got it all in your hair and you started going bald and um, developed funny penis-shaped objects on your chest. I just thought that'd be funny."

"There's one problem with society today. Do you want me to tell you what it is? Social prejudice and hatred, and a belief that Santa Claus is real. In fact, he's a fat fuck who sucks Mrs. Claus' nipples for Christmas. Except, wait, if there's any young people in the audience, that was just a joke to be cool to the older crowd. It isn't really true. I'm not fucking joking. I saw a reindeer when I was little. It was nothing to do with Santa, but I did see a reindeer. It looked very nice. It was very sexy."

"You guys on the floor rock, the floor rocks, yeah, the floor, the floor rocks. But you guys in the seats. OHMYFUCKIN' GOD! Some people just don't seem to understand the conecpt of ROCK!"

"Oh for fuck sake stop saying 'shade.' Do you guys wanna rock or do you wanna hold your fucking lighters in the air while we play Bon Jovi? 'Cause wait, I know a Bon Jovi riff just wait. That's from Bed of Roses. We cover that song, as well as various other love classics. FUCKING STOP SAYING SHADE!"

"Everyone turn to the person next to you and put your tongue in their throat! Fuck, come on, isn't anybody gonna do it? KISS!"

"I'm obsessed with alien links to Egypt. It started when I was about 15, and I got really into the Pyramids. It's so amazing. If there's a possibility that something like God created humans, then there's definitely a chance that some species of aliens could have come to Earth and done the something."

"My dog is a lovely creature... Chris is lovely as well... but I reckon my dog is cuter."

"Hey! Oh!" (waited for crowd to repeat) "Yeah! (they repeat) "Holy fuck!" (they repeat) "It's so fucking hot!" (they repeat) "Sweating my balls off!" (they repeat) "If any girls sang that, you've got a fucking problem! But if there is any girls here with balls, no listen, wait! If there are any girls here with balls they've got a free backstage pass. They come up on stage and---WAIT! SHUT UP!! You've gotta hear what you gotta do and you might change your mind! You've gotta demonstrate the helicopter, with your pants down and swing your balls, that's...wait! That's no penis! You gotta be a girl with balls! If there is anybody with that deformity, WE LOVE YOU! Want some water? All right!"

"I hope I don't go to jail, I hope I don't get raped!"

"Ffffff... stuff you, stuff you!" [trying not to say fuck on the radio]

[someone in the crowd yells,'fuck off'] "We're going to be on this stage for another half an hour, so YOU fuck off!"

[interviewer asks, "Who would you rather do it with, Kylie Minogue or Courtney Love?"] "Oh, God! Neither!"

"I've got AIDS, I'm dead, I'm gay, I've got a heroin addiction. I think that's about it." [talking about rumours about himself]

"You can always trust your dog. It's the best. You know why they love you and why they respond to you. Maybe because you feed them or something."

"It's my Rock Melon, I love my Rock Melon. My intimate feelings for it are more than any girl, except Sweep."

"When we're 25, we'll be skinhead bastards and no one will be messing with us after that, cause we'll be so hardcore."

"The next person to say something cool gets to have sex with Ben!"

"I'm really claustrophobic as well. I've been caught in six lifts in my life. One time I was in there for 3 hours by myself, and it was totally dark, and I was just sitting in the corner pressing the alarm button. I was freaking out and sweating. And then I heard this tapping on the roof, and I was like, 'Thank fuck! About fucking time!'"

"Everybody, look at the person next to them, and if they were a guy, ask how big their penis is and tell me, coz Ben is having a competition with everyone, he says his dick is bigger than everyone out there."

"Yep... No, don't.""Yep... No, don't."

"I'd just like to dare the 16 year-olds from Iowa to try and beat me up."

"Oh shit, we're all going to die really, really dramatically."

"I sucked, I sucked Israel's dick, Israel's dick I sucked.."

"The Rock Melon is mine, Chris!!! Give it here!!! It's mine!! It's mine and no one elses!"

"Holy fuck! You are a knob!"

"Nothing. I just basically walk around naked..... at one with nature."

"Um, we can't hear this host guy. Are we on the radio? What's happening? I'm scared!"

"That stuff makes me sick, but 'mmmbop', at least... yeah, yeah, cool. It's like 'bop' and it's hip, I dunno. No, 'mmmbop' doesn't tear me up. I don't like it, but uh, Nsync does!"

"There's a new, young band called Savage Garden, and they rock."

"Chris' life is taken up by shitting and showering."

"The camera will pan across and everyone will go, 'famous person, famous person, three guys sitting with their mums!'"

"It's the stupidest thing, because if you read reviews and people say we sound a bit like Black Sabbath, it doesn't bother us, because it's true. Black Sabbath are an influence, and we take things from them and we learn a lot from them, and the same goes for Zeppelin. But when we are compared to Nirvana, it really fucking pisses me off, because none of us even own Nirvana records. They were a good band, but we are not fans, and it's really annoying when people assume that because we are from this generation, we must listen to this music."

"On Santa Monica beach I was driving a four-wheel drive without a licence or registration, or a beach permit. I was with Dave Navarro from the Chili Peppers. The police put me in the back of a squad car and took me to the station. I'm never going to do that again."

"Ben Gillies [laughs]. Actually, I have slept in the same bed as him, but I haven't had any sexual intercourse with him. I'm not very interested. He's not my type. Just sleeping in the same bed as him is bad enough. He snores very loud. He's an animal." [last person on earth he would want to sleep with]

"I'll die when I'm about 72. 72 and eight months. I reckon that's a good age. Unless I'm assassinated, or I fall over in front of a truck or something. That could happen anytime. But not the assassinated bit - I hope that would be a while."

"I haven't had a girlfriend since I was 14, I don't want a girlfriend. We don't have any time, and it's hard now to meet people and wonder if they like me or they like my money. It's too much of a hassle, so I just got a fucking dog. I have some great pornographic pictures of my dog. Actually, [laughs] I better clear that up. She's laying on her stomach with her legs wide open and you can see everything. She's just looking at the camera, it's heaps funny."

"We said, 'We'll make it look like we sold some records'. So we went out and bought all of them!"

"We don't have any style to cramp!"

"I am Cornholio... Who here is sexy? Fuck you're quiet! YEAH YEAH YEAH!"

"Put your hands up if you're a jock. Yeah, jocks , we salute you. All right, put your hands up if you're a grunge cadet. All right, the grunge cadets win so far! Put your hands up if you're a fuckwit. Ah, we have many a fuckwit in the house. I didn't say it, you did! Um... put your hands up if you're homosexual. Yeah gay pride! I'm not... I'm bi, cause that's the cool thing to be.... cause bisexual is cool. If you'll try anything then you're trisexual.. Oh sorry!"

"Chris is growing his hair again because he looks too tough, he gets too many comparaisons to Henry Rollins."

"I found out about a month ago when I turn 18 I'm going to be on tour with my dad, so I'm going to get my dad to buy me a bunch of alcohol and get drunk in front of him!"

"All we did in music class was tap wood sticks together!"

"Ben’s got new shoes because he’s not as naturally beautiful as me. This song is dedicated to Ben ‘cos I feel sorry him."

"Hey, I don’t care if anything lands on me, here, take a shot, I really don’t give a fuck just not while I’m playing though because it puts me off."

"What, you're a lesbian as well? You can't be, you're a guy!"

"Has anyone -- oh, time to pull our pants up [pulls up his pants] -- Uh, I was going to say, has anyone ever pulled their dick?"

"Ah, you fucking shits say 'yeah' on everything so I don't care anymore!"

"Hi everyone. We're silverchair, and we play music occasionally."

"How do you put these things(bras) on? Don't know much about them -- I know they're supposed to hold your boobs up!"

"Alright, I'll give you a choice: we can play pick the scab off your ugly fucking head, or we can play 'Tomorrow,' which one?"

"Hey, don't call me a lesbian!"

"I'm sorry I yawned."

"Sorry, they won't give you water... die."

"My dad doesn't care, he's like, 'Do what you want.' My mum's kinda like, 'You're not getting Vodka in your rider.' I'm like, 'Sure, OK.'"

"What could be better then playing music with your friends and missing school while you're doing it?"

"I know people think everyone in a band does all these wild things all the time -- but most of the people in bands don't have their mum's on the road with them."

"I’m finding that if I talk more, the less stuff the journalist will make up."

"silverchair popped up through an unfortunate incident which we don't wanna explain, 'cause we've explained it about 500 times in various interviews."

"Give tour dates, give tour dates... That's what it says on the paper!"

"Is there sweat down there? Cause, like, there's sweat up here."

"Hmmm, yeah, do I look alright Ben? I can't see."

"Ben's been to jail.. Ben's been to jail for illegal pornography in a barn."

"This song is called 'Fat Cat's Scrotum.'" ['Tomorrow']

"Why can’t I say fuck, mum? It’s not like it’s a rude word or something, fuck. You know what Mum, FUCK YOU!"

"When we were playing in France I had to stop and put my guitar down and run backstage to take a piss. I left Ben and Chris standing there for about three minutes. I just couldn't wait."

"I'm going to sing the next one by myself, I dunno why. I didn't wanna fucking do it."

"Oh hang on I'm gonna get a present..... You're never getting a fuckin present again.... Ben's got a bra.. Stand up and show... I don't want it on.. It's too scary.. What the fuck do you keep throwing it back for?"

"Thanks. The top was really good then, the people in the seats were good, positive reinforcement. The people in the seats are rad. I dunno if you can tell I'm lying, but I am, 'cause I couldn't see you, it's just dark, but I'm sure you were. (low house lights go on) Hey, I can see people standing now, it's cool, ahhh ahhh ahhh oh fuck! I just thought of the raddest thing and if you don't do it I'm gonna feel like a fucking idiot but it would be rad if you do it. Can you turn the lights up a little bit more please, Hugh? (full house lights come up) Awesome! Wait, do a Mexican wave! Let's pretend we're at the football, start it, start it, all sit down and do a wave, don't be fucking pussy-footing around and just fucking do it, ya ready, start! [screams] Yeah, yesss, yesss, yessss, fucking stadium rock! Yeah! The top's my favourite now! Sorry, bottom, you can't do that shit, unless you think of something really fucking special, yeah, have you got any ideas? I've got an idea, all get naked and dance in a circle, that would be awesome, look all these people ready to get naked are standing there saying 'take my clothes off' and no one's doing it! Look, all these people wanna get naked but no one's doing it. Do it! Oh yeah! (laughs) Look at the shirts! (many shirts come off and a girl sitting on someone's shoulders at the front lifts her shirt and flashes her breasts for all the band and crowd to see) Ohhh! (laughs) There we go, yeah, look the crowd loves it, it's very discriminatory but you know if ya wanna do it, you can do it, look at this we're gonna get, we're gonna go to jail, all right, jail! Who's been to jail here? Has anyone in the crowd been to jail? (a few hands go up) Yeah, ya have not, ya haven't been to jail, maybe I reckon a percent, 1 percent of this crowd's been to jail, Ben's been to jail, Ben went to jail for illegal pornography in a barn. All right, we're gonna play now as its starting to get really fucking boring."

"We dance with our dads in nightclubs."

"You're forgiven, but not forgotten, right Ben?"

"Ben got drunk on Bourbon one night in Melbourne. He just said 'Fuck it! I'm shaving my head!' We couldn't find any scissors so I ended up cutting it with nail scissors. It took about four hours! We were raging drunk. Ben woke up and went 'Fuck!'"

"Sorry...he forgot it was time to change guitars. We're very unprofessional. I'm all embarrassed now!"

"There's this guy in the hospital and he's just finished an operation and the doctor walks in and says, "I've got some good news and some bad news." He goes, "Okay, tell me the bad news." He goes, "We chopped the wrong leg off." And he's like, "NO! What's the good news?" and he goes, "Your bad leg is getting better." Yeah!"

"Are you fuckers ready?!"

"We don't have serious arguments. We just muck around, and decide who's gonna hit who first."

"It's saying, um, look, here's our arses!" [mooning]

"Um... we fucked up!"

"I hate that term 'groupies'. Every time I hear it, it reminds me of Poison or something. [laughs] We just want to play."

"If I wasn't in our band I'd hate us, just to be cool."

"Me and my dog are best friends."

"There's a fire in the building. Oh fuck, there's a fire! Sit... quick!"

"We don't really like any dance music -- we hate it. We just listen to Alice In Chains and heaps of Led Zeppelin. A couple of years ago, that's all we'd listen to. We were always arguing over who was the best band. Ben would go 'Oh, Led Zeppelin are the best band' and I'd go "Nahhh, no way.'"

"We were really kind of nervous. You know when you're talking to someone who you really like and you forget everything you want to say. I was just going, 'Hi,' and Chris goes, 'Hi." Then I went, 'Oh fuck, I don't know what to say.' I wasn't going to go, 'You're real cool man,' so I said, 'Can you sign this?' I got him to sign this bank withdrawal card and he filled it all in and everything. It was a classic. Chris wrote 'Tough Guy' for his name and the withdrawal was for, like, three million dollars or something." [talking about meeting Soundgarden's Chris Cornell]

"Every time I come up with a good idea for a song it's about death."

"We're not famous. It's never going to happen. We're not good enough to be a famous band. We've seen better bands in Australia that just kick our ass who don't even have a record deal. We don't expect anything. It's just luck."

"I got this little electric guitar for $80 or something for a birthday present when I was 13, and we kept going, 'Chris you should learn to play bass.' So he got a really shitty bass and we started playing together in Ben's garage. We still practice there, only because we can't be bothered by taking a whole drum kit and setting it up."

"We've had fights before and they last for about two hours, and then we just say, 'wanna go for a surf,' and everything's OK."

"All right... all right. We need some fucking volunteers, all right. Put your hand up and I will pick you, all right...whoever does the most loving thing gets picked. So whoever... whoever can shoot me the most love. Yep... you, yeah you... yeah, you're shooting love. You as well, the blonde one... yeah, the one that's about to... yeah. Ok, we need guys. Yeah. The guy with no shirt, yeah you look good. Um... yeah you. Yeah, you're shooting love. Shooting love like a machine gun. All right, yeah... we want you as well because you're just about to fall... Hey! Hey! Wrong direction... yeah... we want her. Um, yeah... you! You! YOU! YOU! YES! YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU! YOU! FUCKING YOU! Yeah... you as well... you as well, yeah all the guys with their shirts off. Take your shirts off and come up and expose the body to the beautiful Melbourne women. Yeah... you as well. With the glasses... yes. You. All right, it's starting to look very promising for the 'chair. All right. Oh, yeah you! The guy swinging the shirt 'cause he thinks he's a stripper. Yeah, expose your muscle. Oh man... that was very... athletic. Give him a ringer shirt so he can train in it when he gets home. Have we got bonds? Hey, we're not starting until that guy comes up. He was too good. He jumped off a fuckin'... oh... a balcony... sorry Triple J, I forgot. All right, yeah... this guy as well. Look, look, I did that for you girls. I did that for you. I am here for you. I did that for you and you only! Triple J listeners, we have naked men on stage."

"I've heard it's really cold over there. I hope so... I really want to see snow."

"We didn't go home and cry or anything like that." [Kurt Cobains death]

"We don't really like Nirvana that much."

"No, not New Kids On The Block... They suck."

"That is the best place in the whole world!" [Magic Mountain]

"We were 14 when we had our first single."

"Uhm.. the tip of a penis." [Daniel's definition of knob]

"I always drop something or break something. Yesterday I broke a cup. I'm really good around the house."

"Room service... baby, I need a meal!"

"Rock on! Fucking jump and just do everything except break people."

"Ben stole my underwear again!"

"We're getting a divorce." [him and Ben]

"I'm not afraid to show my feminine side. I'm proud of it. In fact, me and Ben have an announcement to make..."

"I like the way you talk to me... Ooooooooh, I like the way you caress my belly."

"I just can't be bothered washing it [his hair], because your hair will smell like flowers and that stinks."

"When in doubt, lie."

"I'm not sure, so don't quote me on that."

"Scream out all those people who believe in Jesus. And what about those who believe in "Satan". Yeah that's always the winner. Everywhere we go. Whether it be France, Canada or Germany. Especially Germany they love Satan over there. Can you give me a Hallelujah?"

"Put your hands up if you're a prostitute. Put your hands up if you're a homosexual. Put your hands up if you've had sex... with an endangered species of tiger, cos Ben used to have sex with his pet white tiger, but then we found out from the animal liberationists that it wasn't cool. So then we invested in a cat, and we only kiss cats cos cats are cute."

"Yeah occasionally. She talks back to me. I ask her how the weather is, and she's like, "Pretty cool." [talking to sweep on the phone when he's on tour]

"Could we do this before my brain goes stale?"

"I don't drink alcohol either, because of a stomach ulcer. But I'm definitely not straight-edge. I mean, I'll take certain stimulants, if you know what I mean. When I'm at parties, but nothing too out of control. A lot of people get drugs and drug addicts mixed up. I'm not hugely into drugs, but it's good to experiment now and again."

"I don't think I want to do another interview with Ben. I just don't like it. I feel intimidated. Coz you're just too big."

"Hey, you guys back at the snack bar -- get your asses back here and mosh!"

"I feel proud to be Australian every day. I love Australia. It's my favorite country."

"It's great watching people running after a truck to get their schoolbag. That's really funny."

"We're not going to play anymore.... we're all just going to have sex."

"People basicially leave us alone, but some call us long-hair louts."

"I don't think we're going to kill ourselves, I think we're just going to stop."

"I'd go back to Egypt, really fucking early to find out if there were aliens there. I wish there'd been a hidden camera when they built the pyramids because they're just too precise to have been built by men at that time." [traveling back in time]

"Some teachers don't really like us because we're in a rock band. Our music teacher, especially, really hates us. She thinks that classical music is the only music in the world, and she's always calling me and Ben to stay after class. One time she was yelling at us that we don't take her seriously, and we were just laughing. She started crying. I felt so bad, but we couldn't help it."

"A lot of people think, 'Oh, it must be really good to see all the world,' and stuff. And we're like, 'Must be.'"

"We expected it [frogstomp] to sell about 2000, and then when it started going up a bit we're going 'oh my God!.' Then when it got to 15,000 we're going, 'I hope it doesn't sell anymore, we don't want it to sell anymore!' When it went to number 1 we were kind of spewing! They're going congratulations and we're going, 'everyone's going to expect every record to go to number one!'"

"Lucky charms would be bad. I never really got into that stuff, because I always think if I get a lucky charm and take it everywhere then I'll lose it because I always lose stuff. If I lose it then I think I'll have bad luck. So, if I don't have one at all, nothing can happen."

"Thanks, that was better! Adrenaline warmth yes, yes, yes! Warmth! Defy gravity! Defy Nature! Nature cannot... [fingering the sky] You cannot fuck with us! [pretending to cry] God, There's nothing you can do! There's nothing you can fucking do! [enormous crowd laughter] You ready? You fuckers ready to Rock? Can I get a hallelujah? [crowd repeats] Can I get a hallelujah?! [crowd repeats] Can I get a halle-fucking-lujah?!"

"Un de toua cat sink si set oui neu di, fromage, merci, bonsoir la France." ["1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, cheese, thank you, hello France."]

"Let's get this straight. There are no kangaroos on the main street."

"We used to always have spurts of stupidness."

"He's [David Helfgott] kissing you and rubbing you. And there was one time he grabbed my dick. He didn't know that he was doing it. I was just standing there a little uncomfortable. But he's really nice."

"Dawson's Creek, yep, I think I'm gonna like that show."

"As soon as we get big heads, we're stoppin'. Thats our oath between us all. As soon as one of us gets a big head, we're going to tell them and we're not going to make any room for their feelings. And if they keep getting a big head, we break up."

"They're worse behaved than us. We kind of have to look after our dads."

"I don't want to be famous for being a celebrity."

"But now, I like when people make up things, because it makes life interesting. You can talk to one person and they might think you're gay, and you talk to another and they think you're some hardcore smackhead."

"We don't have any fans."

"Speaking of misconceptions, the biggest misconception about me is I'm constantly on tour getting different girls every night, being this wild sex machine."

"I'm not some drug king, but I don't want to put a label on myself where I can never go out and have fun."

"I'm a little bit scared of them [spiders] but I still move them away, I just put them in a cup and let them go in the garden."

"You've been crowned lesbian wanker!"

"It's very glam rock stadium without the wank."

"I'll just pull my pants up so they don't fall down, cos I'm not wearing any boxer shorts, so I'm free-balling it."

"Remember the time we were touring in Perth and you came into our room with no clothes on and said 'Come and take me, boys'?" [To Art Alexakis from Everclear]

"I think the government treats us like shit, they think the youth is a bunch of people who are wasting their lives on drugs and loud music. They're so full of prejudices, they can't even see over the rim of their cup."

"If I walk into a restaurant or a café or something, there’s this whole Yuppie mentality of people who think I shouldn't be there because I don’t brush my hair. But I’ve probably got more money then them. It’s ['Satin Sheet'] about people who think that unless you look rich, you’re not rich, and if you don’t look rich, you don’t deserve to be at a café having a cup of coffee."

"Who needs girls when you have a dog?"

"My brothers and sisters, we are gathered here today to fuckin' rock the house! Can I get a hallelujah?"

"He's a stud." [Ben]

"This song's ['Spawn'] off a movie soundtrack. It's about animal liberation and being anti-insect fucking. So if you're a sick fuck, and you fuck insects, this song's a fuck-you to you. And if you don't, you have nothing to worry about. Unless you fuck animals. All right."

"Way to go, Gillies! The big brown eye!"

"Is there any beaches, like, anywhere in this country?"

"Shut the fuck up! Could all the fucking teenies step to the back and let the real fans come up front?"

"I'm playing this song by myself so if you want to go to the toilet, this is the time."

"All right, stage dive if you want. We're not legally responsible if you injure yourself."

"Fucking stop throwing bottles, or I'm gonna fucking hit you."

"Hey! Silence for the WRESTLER!"

"Merci you guys! You should all be rocking. Are you all rocking? Or are you still cold? Are you cold? Why the fuck aren't you jumping then? You ready to jump? Every single mother fucking one of you - Even the people on the little hills - with their penis in hand. Ready? Alright. We're gonna jump. If you don't jump, if every single person in the whole fucking place isn't jumping around, we're going to play the Australian national anthem three times in a row."

"I'm gonna come down and kick all your fucking asses... That's it, your fucked! I'm gonna kick all of you! When you keep fucking throwing... you don't know how many things I've copped in the head lately, I mean fuck, I'm starting to get a headache. I'll continue from that point."

"Like, I've never had a groupie shag in my life. I don't believe in taking advantage of people."

"Parties suck."

"Fat boy... Ladida... I forgot the fucking lyrics!"

"OK, those who wanna sit there and sip orange juice, you should get up and rock. What do you wanna do? Sip orange juice or rock? OK, let's vote on it -- those who want to sip orange juice say aye! And those who want to rock, say aye!"

"We're not playing Tomorrow tonight, sorry. So if anyone's got a problem with that, they can try and get their money back. You won't get it, because you love it! We opted for the Minor Threat song because you look like you want to rock. You don't want to sit there listening to a fucking song about some fucking water being hard to drink, all right? So don't fucking worry, and just rock the house."

"Everyone, I’m just going to take a break. So now would be a good time to have yourself some sex. Because I seen on 'Sex Life' that it was good to have sex when you are all hot and sweaty."

"Shut up! [directed at girls who were screaming his name] Ben's got a little thing where he likes to play little jazz bits to show you how multi-talented he is. He really is. He's quite multi-talented. A multitude of talent. Does anyone here play the harmonica? No one does, but Ben does, 'cause Ben can do anything. What are ya, Ben, what are ya? What can ya do? Anything! Ready? Ssshhh, we want ultimate silence. Don't scream, shut up, SHUT UP! Ah, don't worry about it, we won't do it. It's a little game we like to play but if you don't wanna play, you don't have to. Yeah, this song's about child abuse."

"Does anyone here believe in non-violent sports such a water polo and/or Marco Polo?"

"Come on, have your best shot! If you can spit on me, you get to come up and dance on stage naked."

"Everyone should dress like the opposite sex."

"We love L.A. One of the first times we played this song in L.A. the sound went out. So we are kinda tempting fate. So if the sound goes out we don't give a fuck."

"Not only do they hold their tune when you drop them on their heads, they sound good too." [about PRS guitars]

"One time we were all at Ben's house, and we were really bored so we're like, 'We'll request a song on the radio. We'll request 'Berlin Chair' by You Am I.' And that day at school we were talking about how we didn't like Nirvana very much, and our friends said you should listen to 'Sliver' cuz it's a good song. So I said, 'Chris write down 'sliver' and 'chair' so I remember what songs to request.' And he spelled it 'silverchair' so I said, 'Oh, good one!'"

"Once my hair gets down to about there, and I get dreadlocks, they won't say it [that he looks like Kurt Cobain]. Just cuz my hair is that long, and I'm tryin to grow it, but it won't grow. So I'm just going to keep trying to grow it, and if it doesn't grow, I'll just shave my head and be a punk."

"Pegged a bottle at my head. It was pretty good. It was fun. There would have been some good pictures, but mum's camera got stolen!"

"Where's Ben and Chris?! Where's Ben and Chris?! I don't want to play that fucking song! Where's Ben and Chris?! Ben and Chris!! We're gonna play another song that was not planned, this is very punk-rock but I'm so cold my fingers are hurting playing guitar. We're going to play a song where I can just play it backwards and pretend that it's 'Wild Thing' or something. So is everyone fucking ready to rock? We don't know this song very well, but we're just gonna start it. We're gonna fucking play it! You ready? You ready? That's how much I'm dedicated to my art! Are you fuckers ready?"

"I didn't get any fucking money. I never have, and I never will because me mum hates me."

"Chris is one bad mother fucker when he's mad."

"What the fuck?!"

"Uh.. January 5, 1992." [last time he washed his hair]

Daniel: "I want a water." [Manager: "What do you say?"] Daniel: "I want a water.... NOW!"

"I will one day.... a love song." [writing a song about Sweep]

"Ben's the drag queen."

"What? Fuck you!"

"We don't watch the X-Files, uh uh."

"That's all it is, it's just music. Whenever we feel like releasing an album, we will. And if we feel like going for a surf, we will."

"Be prepared to laugh, coz we're funny."

"And your point is?"

"Just remember Crocodile Dundee."

"Ah, YEAH!"

"We're bored... give us something funny to do."

"Yeah, for two years. Mum and Dad took me to a psychiatrist, cos I was a real crazy arse. I used to have fits when I was about two years old, and that's when I started to have my friend, Robin. It was really serious. If I sat down for dinner, and it was just my family that had plates, I'd cry and throw tantrums cos they hadn't made food for Robin. And if Dad went to sit down I'd scream, 'You're going to sit on Robin.' And Dad would be like 'OK!' If he ever bought me chocolates, he had to buy one for Robin. I could actually see him. I swear to God, he was so real." [talking about having an imaginary friend]

"He's Mr. Motor." [talking about Chris]

"There's no hit record, believe me."

"PLEASE, don't wet me!"

"We haven't played live for over a year, though, so hopefully we can still do it!"

"What song is it? Anthem? I thought you might have, y'know, done a little history of the band first, like maybe Tomorrow and then... but if you just wanna jump straight to the chase... OK, ready?"

"Yeah, just basically every morning I wake up at 6 a.m. and just surf until about 3, and then go for a jog about 18 kilometres [11 miles] and then I work out at the gym for three hours, then I come home and eat chickpeas to get protein, then watch Neighbours then quickly get back into the gym, more surfing and basically just work really hard to get the right physique for touring."

"Yeah!" [crowd repeats] "Whoa!" [crowd repeats] "I'm from!" [crowd repeats] "Germany!" [crowd repeats] "I smoke!" [crowd repeats] "Lots of pot!" [crowd repeats] "And attend regular concerts!" [crowd cheers] "Ah, you couldn't remember that line."

"Ben's feet! He's got a certain pair of shoes that he wears for every show. When you play the drums, you sweat lots and lots, and he's worn the same shoes for four years!"

"Aaah! It just looks like a sea of sex." [referring to the beaches in South America]

"We torture ourselves for you!" [When him and Chris threw their waterbottles out into the crowd during Edmonton's Edgefest]

"You drink our water, and we'll drink chinese tea. Tea minus the tea."

"I swear to fucking God, if you're silent, we'll give $100 to every third person. But you gotta be fucking silent...1...2...3!" *crowd cheers* "That fucking sucked! I SWEAR TO GOD! ARE YOU READY FOR FUCKING SILENCE?! 1....2....3!" *silence* "That was pretty good... except for a few morons in the back."

"Number one. Believe in something, believe in something, that is my first statement. I don't know what the hell I am talking about, so ignore me."

"Holy fuck, man! Fucking, it's a fucking... it is a fucking tango!"

"Ben wears lipstick!"

"I wish I hadn't stepped into my dog's shit."

"Today, I wanted to eat a delicious apple, but there weren't any at the moment."

"Last year, at a party, it wasn't a good party, but I still puked for about an hour. I went to the party saying that I wasn't going to drink, and I ended up drinking a lot in about 10 minutes. I was having a bit of a competition with a mate. I think I had a bottle and a half of champagne in 10 minutes, and my stomach didn't agree with it. Yeah, champagne goes down very easy. You don't even realise it, and then all of a sudden - blurgh! I couldn't even remember doing it. I just woke up and tasted spew and Gillies said, 'Yeah, you were spewing for about an hour.'"

"I'd save Hendrix and ask if I could buy his guitar. And then if he said 'no', I'd assasinate him." [when asked what he would do if he could go back in time and assasinate someone]

"Americans always throw fucking hard stuff at my skull. Don't throw any more, we don't want any gifts, just throw t-shirts and socks."

"Thanks for the sock, it's very nice!"

"I know what it is, you don't have to explain, I can smell it from up here. Someone's doing, uh, drugs. But that's all right -- just chill. That's cool, if you want to chill out in the city of hippies, that's cool. Everything is cool, man. We're going to L.A. in two days so we'll go to 'Coke City,' and you guys can be 'Marijuana City,' that's fine, that's cool. We don't mind as long as you're cool and you're very cool, San Francisco. You're fucking cooler than L.A.!"

"Peace, yeah. Fuck, no offense, but I fuckin' hate hippies so much. I'm not saying you're hippies, I'm saying the peace folks, the fuckin' hippies, oh man, they annoy me. There's all this shit happening, all this bad fucking crap in the world and 'everything's cool.' But it's not cool, it is NOT cool -- you have a right to be fucking ANGRY! But not yet because this is a quiet section. We'll wait we'll wait to be angry. Stay calm stay calm for this section."

"Girls suck." [interviewer Tori Garrett comments, "Good ones do"] "She was making a sexual reference. When I said 'Girls suck' I was just trying to be... Some boys suck. [shrugs his shoulders]"

"That's OK, why don't you take a photo of me doing my hair?" [he twirls a dreadlock around his finger] "Why don't you take another one?"

"Geez, that song rocks... And they've gone and made it acoustic...." [talking about Savage Garden's 'To The Moon And Back']

"Sometime I wish we never did it at all, and other times I think it’s pretty great we’re getting these sort of opportunities and I wonder what I’d be complaining about if I wasn’t in silverchair."

"I wanted to have an album where you could turn out the lights and listen to the music and get lost in it, and captivated by certain moods. Which most albums- and our last two- don't."

"I think I'll just feel it. Like the way I feel about my dog." [on knowing when you're in love]

"Yes, I have got a girl's haircut. I'm in touch with my feminine side. We have this ongoing competition about who can get the gayest haircut. My friend Jason has just kicked my ass by getting a layered feather-cut like in that movie 'Pretty In Pink'."

"When I was about 14 years old. I dropped a band saw on my foot. It went straight through it." [the last time he cried]

"During the holidays I sleep till noon. I'm very much the indoorsy type guy. Ben and Chris like to surf, but I don't really go to the beach any more. I don't even have a tan, which is not very Australian, but the other day I was walking my dog and my arms got a bit red and I thought 'Yeah - a bit of color!'. And I don't eat seafood - I just don't live up to the Australian stereotype at all. I failed!"

"Sometimes we want to go out and do stuff our friends are doing but we can't, because if the media finds out about it it will be like exaggerated 50 times, like, if we go out and throw an egg at a house and get caught, all of a sudden it will be made into this big thing about us attacking people on the street. That pisses me off."

"I guess it would be easy to get girls , but a lot of the time you don't want to because you don't want to take advantage of people. Some people are pretty dumb, and they'll do anything just because you're in a band. I don't want to get too involved in that kind of stuff. People in Kiss might take advantage of it, but we really don't."

"I'm really into abstract art of any kind whether it be sculpture or painting. I'm not necessarily good at it, but I just really enjoy doing it."

"silverchair has definitely made me more stand-offish of people because I’ve been exposed to so many morons. I’m a bit more wary or their ulterior motives. But personality-wise, I don’t think silverchair’s had anything to do with my flaws or anything like that."

"Thanks. Uh...I was going to say something interesting, but I forgot. No, actually, I just wanted a break to catch my breath. FUCK YOU!!!" [He stuck up both middle fingers and was talking directly to someone in the crowd] "Yeah, fuck you! Five foot tall boy with both middle fingers up. Fuck you! Oh wait, that's a girl! Sorry I... I couldn't see, but I just assumed because of the moustache. (The crowd went wild) Everybody below give a shout to the people on the hill! Now give a shout to the people in the stands! LOUDER MOTHERFUCKERS!!! See? The people down here like the people up there but they don't... oh, I don't know. You people on the hill and in the stands paid good money, so you should be down here getting hurt with the rest of the rockers! Can I get a hallelujah? Can I get a hallelujah? Can I get a halle-fucking-lujah?"

"This is called 'Lie to Me', and ... uh... yeah."

"I couldn't believe all the shrills and undergarments being hurled at us last night. My mum was at the show last night and I was kinda embarrassed by all that stuff. You never really get used to it."

"Yeah occasionally. She talks back to me. I ask her how the weather is, and she's like, "Pretty cool." [talking to sweep on the phone when he's on tour]

"Could we do this before my brain goes stale?" [Ben stopping during the recording of 'Ana's Song', because he got aggrivated]

"You've been crowned lesbian wanker!"

"It's very glam rock stadium without the wank."

"If I walk into a restaurant or a café or something, there’s this whole Yuppie mentality of people who think I shouldn't be there because I don’t brush my hair. But I’ve probably got more money then them. It’s ['Satin Sheets'] about people who think that unless you look rich, you’re not rich, and if you don’t look rich, you don’t deserve to be at a café having a cup of coffee."

"Who needs girls when you have a dog?"

"My brothers and sisters, we are gathered here today to fuckin' rock the house! Can I get a hallelujah?"

"Way to go, Gillies! The big brown eye!"

"Is there any beaches, like, anywhere in this country?"

"Shut the fuck up! Could all the fucking teenies step to the back and let the real fans come up front?"

"I'm playing this song by myself so if you want to go to the toilet, this is the time."

"All right, stage dive if you want. We're not legally responsible if you injure yourself."

"One day a whale met the beach. The whale said, 'Hey, what's up?' The beach said, 'The tide, motherfucker, the tide.' But wait, there's more. Does anyone here believe in Jesus?"

"We want to thank Blink 182 for letting us play on their stage. We also want to thank ourselves for...playing. Also thanks to Fenix TX. They're very cool and nice. We also want to thank our record company. And we also want to thank our sponsors, Coca-Cola. And we also want to thank anyone who has anything to do with the huge upcoming career of this brilliant young band, silverchair, Australian grunge trio."

"We are the youth, and politicians suck my dick."

"We know rock and roll when we see it, because we play it every goddamned motherfucking night... except for nights off. Then, our manager has us doing interviews with important press people."

"I wanna be your sweet loving Dan!"

"I mean, we're not total perverts. Well, Gillies is. His life revolves around the girls."

["What are the qualities you look for in a vintage guitar?"] "Most people go out for guitars that sound really big - I just go out and look for guitars that look really weird and sound really different. I've already got a guitar that sounds really big. There's no point in buying another one. It doesn't even have to sound good, actually. It just has to look good." ["If it looks good, you'll eventually find a use for it?"] "Exactly. If it sounds good and looks like shit, I'll never use it. I'll only use guitars that look good. (laughs)"

"I just got sick of going out and people were going, 'silverchair!' I just said, 'Oh fuck that.' The only time I go out is at night with a whole group of friends with a beanie on." ["Dark sunglasses too?"] "Yeah, I do that too, actually. Though it looks pretty stupid going out at nighttime with sunglasses on."

"I hated it. I was really embarrassed. I hated singing. But now it's grown on me. It doesn't bother me. It's just part of what I do now."

"I don't have any Zeppelin albums. I have box sets and remasters and stuff like that. I never saw the point in getting an album if I could get it all in a box set. One of our friends has got every Zeppelin album, and box sets, and he knows every Zeppelin song on guitar. He's a freak. It's cool."

"I love violence. I'm not a violent person. I've never been in a fight in my life, and I don't want to, but I love violence in movies and shit. I don't like it if it's true. It pisses me off, but on video games and stuff it's always a good laugh. I love in the game Mortal Kombat when you rip your opponents' hearts out and set them on fire, and they turn into skeletons. That's so rad."

"I'm just not a very positive person. That's not saying I'm some depressed person that walks around sad everyday,'cause I'm not. But I like to write my lyrics when I'm not in the best of moods."

"One day we were normal teenagers, and then all of a sudden, when frogstomp started doing well, people started saying 'oh they're rock stars now.' And we're like 'Fuck no, we're not!'"

"We're more experianced now, so we've branched out a bit more. We've always admired Led Zeppelin for the way they had different sounds on every song and different instruments and just made everything real interesting."

"I got it in April because I had all this money and I had nothing to do with it. I have no expensive tastes, I just want records and books and videos. My accountant told me I had to buy something expensive for a tax deduction so I was like going out with dad and we were trying all these fast cars. We drew it out for so long because we were enjoying it so much. We'd rock up, looking like bums, and they'd be like, 'You can't afford this car.' Then some young salesman would see me and he'd run over to the manager and all of a sudden we'd be cruising around in these cars. In the end I settled on a [magnetic blue two-seat] Mercedes, which I liked but I got custom made false leather interior." -[talking about his new car, the "Kompressor"]

"In some ways, it kind of sucks, because sometimes we want to go out and do stuff our friends are doing but we can't, because if the media finds out about it it will be like exaggerated 50 times. Like, if we go out and throw an egg at a house and get caught, all of a sudden it will be made into this big thing about us attacking people on the street. That pisses me off."

"One time I was in Newcastle and some group of jocks in a car were yelling out this shit, I can't even remember what, saying they were going to kill me and stuff, so I picked up this rock and threw it at their window and smashed it. Then I was really scared and I ran because their was 5 of them and I was just in year 11. They turned the car around, I could hear them. I hid in the back of a grandstand. I could hear them 'Where's that little faggot?' In some ways it was exciting, but I don't think i'll do it again."

"It was like, 'Fuck!'"

"I've heard 'fuck' on ABC [a tv station]! Two fat ladies said it!"

"No, my dad's name is not Israel."

"If I'm in a portaloo [a porta-potty] and I can't open the door, I cry.."

"Shut the fuck up!"

"I'm definatly not straight edged... I'm far from it."

"I find it hard to trust people 'cause I don't know if they are talking to me 'cause they like me or 'cause they like the fame, which is why I love Ben so much."

"The birdies should be free! They should fly and be free! They should be able to glide through life."

"Sweep is always getting called a boy & she hates it! I was doing lots of my vocal tracks with my dog in the vocal booth on Steam Will Rise. I was singing really quietly so she thought I was singing to her so she just barked to react and it was in the right place for some reason. I think she knew because she’s very talented so she barked in the break and it came in perfectly so we kept it!"

"Paint Pastel Princess is good for Ben because he's a bit gay and wears lipstick ocassionaly."

"But on this album, I kind of realized I'm not a real man so it is time to go back to what I do. Real men don't sing falsetto."

"My life is black and white. It's either very good, or very shit."

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