#in

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. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#hell #i #inherent #just #make

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#forget #laugh #life #me #night

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#i #i can #kill #me #touring

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. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#band #black #black sabbath #considered #fun

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

— Daniel Johns

#hate #i #motivated #overseas #really

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. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#collection #deep #deep purple #first #i

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

— Daniel Johns

#first #hole #into #musically #our

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment. ↗

— Glynis Johns

#safeguard #sensible #unemployment

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#business #conscious #i #ideas #imply

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#fragment #intention #involves #life #mind