Top 35 Daniel Johns Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You say that money isn’t everything, well I’d like to see you live without it.”

— Daniel Johns

2. “Me and my dog are best friends.”

— Daniel Johns

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

— Daniel Johns

4. “People don’t understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.”

— Daniel Johns

5. “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

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

— Daniel Johns

7. “I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.”

— Daniel Johns

8. “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

9. “I don’t know if sitting home everyday is normal, but that’s what I do.”

— Daniel Johns

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

— Daniel Johns

11. “Touring doesn’t kill me and I can handle it.”

— Daniel Johns

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

— Daniel Johns

13. “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

14. “I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.”

— Daniel Johns

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

— Daniel Johns

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

— Daniel Johns

17. “I’ll always remember 1995 as the year i found out Star Trek wasn’t real.”

— Daniel Johns

18. “Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner.”

— Daniel Johns

19. “I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep.”

— Daniel Johns

20. “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

21. “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

22. “I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.”

— Daniel Johns

23. “I’ve never had a social life, don’t ever want one because it’s boring.”

— Daniel Johns

24. “I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.”

— Daniel Johns

25. “If negative meant positive we’d be heroes.”

— Daniel Johns

26. “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

27. “There are no big groupie fans or anything.”

— Daniel Johns

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

— Daniel Johns

29. “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

30. “I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.”

— Daniel Johns

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

— Daniel Johns

32. “Think what you want, this is what we are.”

— Daniel Johns

33. “So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.”

— Daniel Johns

34. “I’m lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.”

— Daniel Johns

35. “Candles are good as long as you’re not me and you don’t fall asleep and your house burns down.”

— Daniel Johns

36. “I know if I don’t tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.”

— Daniel Johns

37. “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

38. “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