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

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

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

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

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• I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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Daniel Johns (34)

Birth:	22nd April, 1979
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer

About

Daniel Paul Johns was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He is an Australian guitarist, lyricist and singer.  Best known as the former front man of the rock band Silverchair, Johns is also one half of The Dissociatives with Paul Mac and, in 2007, was ranked at number 18 on Rolling Stone‍ '​s list of The 25 Most Under-rated Guitarists.

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