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.

This was amidst rumours that he was suffering from a drug addiction/eating disorder during which Johns explained in a Rolling Stone Australia interview that he had developed anorexia nervosa. Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 – Emerald Green finish. In 2003 he went on hiatus from Silverchair.

Daniel Paul Johns (born 22 April 1979) is an Australian musician singer songwriter guitarist and pianist best known as the frontman of the rock band Silverchair. In 2007 he was ranked at number 18 on Rolling Stone's list of The 25 Most Underrated Guitarists.