Daniel Johns Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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 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 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 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 never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

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

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

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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'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.

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I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

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It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.

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

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