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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.

Daniel Johns

There are no big groupie fans or anything.

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Fans

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

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First

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.

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Deep

First

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

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Post

We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.

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Talking

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

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Life

Years

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

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Dumb

Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.

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Expectations

First

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.

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Music

Hell

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

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Life

Night

We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.

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Hate

Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.

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Control

Eating