The Public Opinion

Kevin Shirley

"(The 3 mums) would rock up about 5.00 with a bottle of white wine, sit back in the studio and go 'Hello Kevin, how's it going? Play us what you've got.' And 5.00 was the most creative time with the band. They'd been going since midday, they were roaring. And the guys would go 'F*ck this, we're out of here,' and go play Super Nintendo or crickets in the passageway."

John Watson

"They remind me of why I got into the music business in the first place."

"silverchair reminds you of what it's all about."

"I was in a hotel room in London with the 3 of them, and they were all watching a video. I was on the phone and got a call about the album's chart listing in the States. And it's like, 'Whoa!' So I turn to the guys and go, 'So, the chart in the States--' and they go "Shhh! We're watching a video.' 'Don't you wanna know the chart number?' 'No.'"

Magazine Editors

"We were hysterical over this letter at the studio. This girl asks, 'Why are they so hot, and how did they get so hot?' She left a phone number, but Ben wanted a picture!" -guitar world

"They were literally playing to 15 people. Some of them were bikers who kept calling out for 'Born To Be Wild.' They were playing on this little stage and Chris stood stock still. He was still new to playing to an audience." -former editor of the Australian Rolling Stone

A Teenie Magazine from Australia

"They're all 14 years old and they're already set to out-grunge Nirvana (...and doesn't the lead singer, Daniel Johns, look uncannily like Kurt Cobain?). Silverchair are super cooooool and their No. 1 hit single Tomorrow is just a taste of things to come for Australia's very own grunge gods from Newcastle in NSW, who have an album out in March. However, the one hitch in their career so far is that their parents won't let them do interviews because they have to study!" -

"Ohhhmigodd! Daniel LOOKED at me!!!" -some girl. i guess i'm deciding to put up a bit of a teenie section here.

Ben Lee from Noise Addict

"They'll always be the 'kids from silverchair.' Those kids, they don't know what they're letting themselves in for." -he's being dumb and talking about their age.

Courtney Love:

"He looks like my dead fcking husband!"
"Yeah, I'd fck him."
"Their music sucks, but he's cute."

Some guy named Ryan Schreiber

"We already know Silverchair blows. But hey! What if, for a change of pace, I gave this album a good review? Aside from losing all of my credibility, I'd have to hang my head in shame. I'll be frank. If there were three people I would want to be stranded on a desert island with, it'd be the kids in Silverchair because I wouldn't feel bad pelting them to death and eating their flesh until help came." --hey, it's not OUR capital 'S!'

Ben Kweller of Radish:

"We hung out with them, and they were nice, but they just couldn't be serious. I was like, 'Let's talk about the new Pavement record, let's talk about Star Wars, and they would just kept farting and laughing and goofing off. I really like their music, but I guess we're real different people."

Australian punk band Frenzal Rhomb:

Daniel Johns of silverchair was threatened with failure by his high school music teacher after he expressed his interest in performing the F.R. song Genius for the class assessment.

MTV Veejays

"silverchair, yeaaaah, THEY'RE a big band..." -Carson Daly

"Yeah, y'know, they're in highschool, and in AusTRALia, they're out of school, while we're IN school, and then when THEY'RE in school, WE'RE out of school!" -a genius comment from Bill Bellamy

Nick Carter of the radio station 104.1 WBCN

"These guys are younger then I am, getting chicks older then THEY are, and their voices haven't changed yet!"

ED NOTE- HALFWIT! THEY WERE 17 WHEN YOU SAID THAT! I SHOULD hope THEY'RE VOICES HAD CHANGED!!!!!

Ozzy Osbourne

"Yeah, when I was in Australia with my daughter, she was mad at me, 'cause I wouldn't take her to meet them. I didn't want to show up on their doorstep like some Big Shot and say, 'Hi, i'm Ozzy Osbourne, and my daughter really loves you guys.'"