Daniel Johns Quotes
Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year. So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis. The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done. There are no big groupie fans or anything. There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it. 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. Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records. Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it. We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring. We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time. We were perceived as a post-grunge band. We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring. 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. With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.
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