Well, we're working harder at finding Ben and Chris quotes, and whenever I find the time, I'll hunt around for more, k?

Daniel

"Ben’s got new shoes because he’s not as naturally beautiful as me. This song is dedicated to Ben ‘cos I feel sorry him."

"We’re going to see who can dance the best, the top or the bottom. I’m going to keep tags on who’s the best. The winner gets to have sex with Ben Gillies, including males. He’s experimented on me, and it’s not bad.”

"We are joined here on stage by Martin Luther King." -He's insane. He. Is. Insane.

"Hey, I don’t care if anything lands on me, here, take a shot, I really don’t give a f*ck…just not while I’m playing though because it puts me off."

"Put your hands up if you’re a prostitute! Put your hands up if you’re a homosexual! Put your hands up if you’re a lesbian! Put your hands up if you’ve had sex!!!!!! YEAH! with an endangered species of tiger, ‘cos Ben used to have sex with his pet white tiger, but then we found out from the animal liberationists that it wasn’t cool. So then we invested in a cat, and we only kiss cats ‘cos cats are cute. You’re a pretty politically correct audience."

"We don't take requests. We play what we want. Shade? Don't think so. We're not here to play super rock power ballads, all right? We're here to rock! You motherf*ckers ready to rock? Are you motherf*ckers ready to ROCK?"

"Oh for f*ck's sake stop saying 'shade.' Do you guys wanna rock or do you wanna hold your f*cking lighters in the air while we play Bon Jovi? 'Cause wait, I know a Bon Jovi riff -- just wait. That's from Bed of Roses. We cover that song, as well as various other love classics. Ah F*CK, stop saying 'shay-y-y-de!'"

"It's ('Spawn') about animal liberation and people who have sex with animals, like Watto."

"Grunge, grunge, grunge... Seattle, Seattle, Seattle... f*ck, f*ck, f*ck."

"What, you're a lesbian as well? You can't be, you're a guy!"

"Merci! Yeah, France! France, France, France, all the girls take off their pants. It's a song of the next album. It's called 'France, France, France, where the girls take off their pants." -bet the French loved that one...

"Stop saying 'Daniel'! If you keep on, I'll kick your asses! That's a joke, that's a joke, Paris! Just kidding!"

"You guys are rocking! Paris KICKS ASS! We were in Germany last night, and I said 'who is better than Paris?' Someone, I dunno who, he said 'Germany is better than France. 'Hey,' I said 'do you say Germany is better than France? Shhh, shhh! Then I said F*CK YOU! FRANCE KICKS ASS!"

"Is anyone drunk?"

"Has anyone -- oh, time to pull our pants up *pulls up his pants* --Uh, I was going to say, has anyone ever pulled their dick?"

"Everyone turn to the person next to you and put your tongue in their throat! F*ck, come on, isn't anybody gonna do it? Kiss!"

"Take a break and have a Kit-Kat." -Talking to Bailey

"We have adopted a hum, it's our new pet, it follows us wherever we go."

"Ah, you f*cking sh*ts say yeah on everything so I don't care anymore!"

"Hi everyone. We're silverchair, and we play music occasionally."

"Ben's the drag queen."

"Thank you very much. Obscenity is absurd. Obscenity is absurd -- remember that. 'Cause in some places you can get arrested for swearing. Dependent on how much you need to have freedom of speech. This isn't hot, by the way. If anybody's hot, please, it's not, it's cool."

"The people who say stuff like that are just dumb, old f*cks who can't remember what it's like to be young. Just because you're a teenager doesn't mean you don't have those emotions. Those people are just jaded, silly old cocks!" -ranting about critics who think he's too "young" to write such "dark" lyrics (thanks to SonicNet Music)

"I think music's only good if it's threatening." (Courtesy of Sonicnet Music again, also for the next one)

"How do you put these things on? Don't know much about them -- I know they're supposed to hold your boobs up!" -bras...duh...

"Neighbours is rad." -Y'know, the Aussie soap?

"Chris's life is taken up by sh*tting and showering."

"Thats American crap!...you go with Neighbours and you cant go wrong."

"Alright, I'll give you a choice: we can play pick the scab off your ugly f*cking head, or we can play 'Tomorrow,' which one?"

"He was a really weird kind of guy." -on Nick Launay

"It's really very nice of you to put up with the cameras...Alright, we'll play now."

"Hey, don't call me a lesbian!"

"The Spice Girls."-Daniel's ideal collaboration...

"It'll be over soon, they suck." -Hanson and the Spice Girls hype. Said seconds after the above quote. Contradiction much?

"I went to Dubbo zoo once when I was little. I saw an elephant. I can't really remember. It might have been another zoo..."

"I'm sorry I yawned."

"They don't do us in when they are watching us so I guess it's close enough to liking it."-the French on new stuff

"We're working on a new album, Freak Show...You won't like it."

"That's f*cked, that's so unprofessional!" -on instruments that screw up

"This is our first time doing this live, so if we f*ck it up it's your fault for pressuring us." - first time playing 'Spawn' live

"I'm going to make up a song right now. Usually it's easier but today's not a good day...Calgary is fun for me, to have a tea... or take a pee!"

"Manila -- tastes like vanilla... I'm gunna have'ta kill her, if she tries to steal my pillow. That was a song called... MANILA, which I wrote about a girl I picked up along the streets for $15."

"Sorry, they won't give you water...die."

"I feel silly."

"Yeah, we're very rock 'n roll." *That wasn't sarcasm, was it?*

"We're not hot, it's all the make up."

"We've only got one more year of school left and we're not gonna jeopordize our music career just to finish school, which we can do when we're 25."

"My dad doesn't care, he's like, 'Do what you want.' My mum's kinda like, 'You're not getting Vodka in your rider.' I'm like, 'Sure, OK.'"

"That will be the first tour without our parents. All of us will be apesh*t, it'll be fun."

"To be honest, I don't really care how I do on those tests, but I can't let my mum hear that I said that."

"What could be better then playing music with your friends and missing school while you're doing it?"

"Actually, we all just came back from spending time with our tutor--THAT'S what we do for fun! Most bands run around getting drunk and having a party, we get to do mathematical finals."

"I know people think everyone in a band does all these wild things all the time--but most of the people in bands don't have their mum's on the road with them."

"I’m finding that if I talk more, the less stuff the journalist will make up."

"We want stuff!"

"I love my rockmelon, I share intimate feelings with my rockmelon, more than any girl, except Sweep!"

"Er, I'm not saying anything about that! I'll get in trouble!"

"We didn't go home and cry or anything like that." -when Kurt Cobain died...

"The first time we heard tomorrow on the radio, it was really embarrassing. We were in a car with a whole heap of our friends and it came on. We turned it off as quick as we could."

"It's good. It's happenin' heaps quick, so we're semi-spewin' about people thinking we're gonna be one-hit wonders. But we're not gonna be." -on tomorrow's success.

"It all really depends, we could be still playing music in silverchair or we could be...asleep." -on what could happen in 5 years

"That's a silly question."

"Probably, yeah...with "mum" written on our chest." -when asked if they'd show up with tattoos

"Bras and all that kind of stuff on stage makes us laugh. We usually take them home and wear them."

"I think he's dead."

"We fight ALL the time."

"Yeah, like Chris will want to go out for tea at a Mexican place and I'll want to go out for tea somewhere else and Ben wants to go somewhere else and we all go 'I don't want to go there!' and then we end up sitting in the hotel eating..."

"I might write a book later on, but it won't be called that." -when asked if he'll write a book called I Was A Teenage Rock Star."

"We thought it was really dumb, so we figured it was a good album name." -when asked how Daniel came up with Frogstomp

"He's a legend. Every time we go to America and people find out we're from Australia, they go, 'Crocodile Dundee, man.' His career's never gonna be over for us - we're always gonna hear about him."

"I gotta get consent from my dog, but I think she'll be cool with it."

"silverchair popped up through an unfortunate incident which we don't wanna explain, 'cause we've explained it about 500 times in various interviews."

"That's a private joke. No one else is gonna get it except us 3, but y'know, we think it's funny."

"Give tour dates, give tour dates...That's what it says on the paper!"

"Aw, really cool song. It was probably what, Alanis Morrisette?"

"My mum's strong!"

"Yeah, it'll be just before a gig, and Ben's like, 'I wonder what the chicks are like.'"

"Is there sweat down there? Cause, like, there's sweat up here."

"Hmmm, yeah, do I look alright Ben? I can't see."

"I don't really care if I can hear or not when I'm 50 or 60 years old...Oh wait, maybe I do!"

"I haven't got much of a voice left, um, cause I f*cked it up screaming too much...so, I'm very sorry for the unfortunate mishap."

"Ben's been to jail, Ben's been to jail for illegal pornography in a barn."

"Ben likes Phil Collins."

"I have lots of phlegm, lots of snot. Yeah, snot--snot, snot...and lots of phlegm."

"I'd rather just sit at home and do nothing."

"But you were pretty curious to see what was going on, so occasionally, I'd step away from the mic just to have a bit of a peek. You could see the people down in the crowd going 'What's happening here?' I started laughing and put my head down so it didn't look like I thought it was funny."--On the stripper thing

"This song's about a cat's birth."

"This song's about premature babies."

"This song is called 'Fat Cat's Scrotum.'"

"Why can’t I say f*ck, mum? It’s not like it’s a rude word or something, f*ck. You know what Mum, F*CK YOU!"

"I don't know how a bra works."

"I was only a seconder at scouts. I mean, imagine that, I was even coming second in scouts, for Christ's sake!"

"OK, those who wanna sit there and sip orange juice, you should get up and rock. What do you wanna do? Sip orange juice or rock? OK, let's vote on it -- those who want to sip orange juice say aye! And those who want to rock, say aye!"

"Feel free to throw any grunge wear onto the stage."

"I'm gonna play this song by myself."

I'm playing this song by myself so if you want to go to the toilet, this is the time."

"All right. Can't you people realise we hate playing that song, and we played it for your benefit? So be thankful. Be thankful we played our number one grunge rock trio hit."

"We're not playing Tomorrow tonight, sorry. So if anyone's got a problem with that, they can try and get their money back. You won't get it, because you love it! We opted for the Minor Threat song because you look like you want to rock. You don't want to sit there listening to a f*cking song about some f*cking water being hard to drink, all right? So don't f*cking worry, and just rock the house."

"There's one problem with society today. Do you want me to tell you what it is? Social prejudice and hatred, and a belief that Santa Claus is real. In fact, he's a fat f*ck who sucks Mrs. Claus' nipples for Christmas. Except, wait, if there's any young people in the audience, that was just a joke to be cool to the older crowd. It isn't really true. I'm not f*cking joking. I saw a reindeer when I was little. It was nothing to do with Santa, but I did see a reindeer. It looked very nice. It was very sexy."

"All right, stage dive if you want. We're not legally responsible if you injure yourself."

"Has anyone ever had sex with an endangered species of tiger? Well, don't, cos they don't like it."

"Come on, have your best shot! If you can spit on me, you get to come up and dance onstage naked."

"He (Krist Noveselic) was sitting on the side of the stage with his girlfriend. He was talking about the dentist for ages. He kept telling us about his toothache. It was funny."

"Cause it's the cool thing to do."-- Daniel's sarcastic explaination as to why he wears make up.

"When we were playing in France I had to stop and put my guitar down and run backstage to take a piss. I left Ben and Chris standing there for about three minutes. I just couldn't wait." -dumbest thing he's ever done

"It's saying, um, look, here's our arses!" -when asked if mooning makes a statement

It's a compliment, babe!" --talking to Ben

Ben

"Good luck to them, no more comments on that band."-Talking about Savage Garden

"We usually tell them that we don't really care what they say; and that we're having fun, and that if they wanna rip us off they can. But if they keep doing it thats when we go after them and kick their arse." -Ben's pent up frustration about critics...

"We can do schoolwork on a plane. Actually, when we get home, we usually catch up with what we can. Some of the teachers are real bastards. but we've got some really cool teachers,too. They just say, "Yeah, we know what you do after school, so don't worry about it."

"Sometimes, but not very often, we play Learn To Hate. The chorus in that f*cks up Daniel's voice."

"We actually get Letterman over here pretty well, like on the same day but with a 13-hour delay. All of our friends love Letterman, and all of them have been kind of like, 'F*ck, you're going to get to meet Letterman?' It's going to be pretty cool."

"We can't help it, we don't HAVE anything meaningful to say!"

"I'm looking at being a doctor. I do physics, chemistry and 4 unit maths."

"The Germans are quite violent sometimes."

"We don't have fun, we're boring."

On America being the most difficult place for a drink:
"Oh yeah, it sucks! I actually think in France is the best! 'Cause you can drink so young and once people get 18 or 21 they don't care. They don't go out and get pissed. They might go out and have a social drink. Not like Australia or America. When they turn 18 and they go out and go apesh*t! Actually in South America, where we toured with the Sex Pistols and Bad Religion, the price of alcohol was amazing! A two-litre bottle of Bacardi rum was 10 bucks! Ten dollars! It was so cheap! And we were just going, 'This is amazing!' It was really fun. And there are a lot of nice females in South America!"

"I never really liked Minor Threat. Actually, I kind of thought they sucked. And then Daniel came into practice one day and said, "Oh, let's play a song it's called Minor Threat." And I just thought, "I don't want to play that f*cking song!" And then I said, 'Yeah, I will do it.' And then we were playing it. And it's like grand and I ended loving this song and started listening to more of their stuff. I love them and they are great."

Who do you want to kill on the tour bus?
"Welchy. He's our old on-the-road tutor. Now he's head of security. He keeps putting his food scraps everywhere and he eats all the time."

"Daniel doesn't drink at all."

"I'm probably the most sensible one!"

"I really don't take any notice of girls in the audience. I really don't. I just play. I've got a sh*t view anyway. A couple of cymbals. I can't see jack."

"I'm not saying I like Nirvana, but I was just curious to hear the song." -about why they wanted to hear 'Sliver' on the radio

"It's not too bad to have mums on the road. Sometimes I don't know why they come. Usually, we don't even see them. It's really wierd; the only time we'll see them is when they say goodnight, and that will be it."

"We'll be a teen band until we're 20."

"Our dads are cool. If we did something stupid and hurt ourselves, they'd just go 'you dickhead, I told you not to do that!' And they don't care if we swear. Because they know that if they weren't there, we'd be doing it anyway."

"We can go and play in front of 30,000 people and we wouldn't give a sh*t. We wouldn't be nervous or anything. But if we played in front of our friends we'd be like really embarrassed and really nervous."

In 10 years? "Hopefully still playing in this band. If not, we'll be playing in another bands, or sitting home getting fat, sitting in front of the TV. Eating hamburgers, going to the beach."

"I learned some things by watching Chad Smith when we toured with the Chili Peppers. He's just the coolest. I got to play on his kit one night and it just blew me away, because I play with these tree-trunk sticks and he uses something like 5Bs. It felt like I was playing with pencils."

"Yeah, my head's cold, but showers are quick."

"Television yep, cable T.V." -what Ben likes best about America

"I was there for the second one. I got to see it. It was so funny. There was no anesthetic...He was like, crying...I was giving him moral support." -on Daniel's 2nd piercing.

"Thank you very BEEEEP! much." -To explain this, Ben couldn't swear, cos he was on the radio, so he improvised...

"We don't do that you liar!" -Talking to Daniel about what they do before gigs

"Uh, I think you should, uh, rephrase that!"

"It was pretty funny when all our voices were breaking. It'd be like, 'Hello, uh, UHHH! You know, like, squeaks."

"Shut up! You're making me sound bad!"

"Shut up mum!"

"Shut up, Daniel."

"Shut up, Daniel! I'm sorry I can't get dates like you!"

"What does "scored" mean?"

"Give me a break, guys."

It's pretty funny when we go out to countries where the drinking age is 13 or 14, and we all go to bars and order and drink some stuff. Our parents will go, "Hey!" And we go: "We are legal to drink here!"

"Trust me -- you don't want to hear that!" -Chris or him singing

"We already do 'Waterfalls actually -- we put the makeup under our eyes and everything. No, I'm just kidding." -when asked about covering TLC's (duh) 'Waterfalls'

"Do you mind if we go to sleep?"

"My head is cold."

"I was only joking, I'm 16. It is pretty cool that you believed me that I was 18. Actually, I was joking again, I'm 10."

"After the show in Germany, we were waiting in the band room and Marilyn Manson walks in and says, "Come on boys, we're going for a drink." We were drinking some weird drink like a Fireball or something. It was scotch with a bit of coke and some other spirit and we had shots of it. That was pretty cool. They were surprisingly down to earth, cool guys. If you saw them on stage you'd think they were psychos that go around killing chickens."

"A girl [reporter] asked me the other day if I was a millionaire." -dumbest question Ben's ever been asked.

"Put in that anyone that's looking for a good time, come to room 352 at the Hyatt after the gig."

"Daniel, I could cut your head off for that song." -talking about 'Cicada'

"Was it a wet dream, Chris?"-- Responding to the obvious below.

Chris

"I did one (a show naked) last night in my dream."

"That was bloody freezing. In his studio he has it really cold, I don't know why. He must get really hot. It was kinda strange because we came on, played one song, he shook our hands and that was it." -on the Letterman show

"It was kinda strange because you'd see all these people jumping around up the front and then you'd look five metres back and there was just guys in suits and stuff." -on the ARIAS

"There's never been any negative stuff except losing stuff at the airport. We always seem to lose stuff wherever we play in Canada or anywhere, so..."

"Daniel just got his wrist slapped a bit and a fine, I think. Nothing, really." -on the beach arresting thing

"It's funny to hear people say you're a rock star, because when I think of a rock star, I kind of think of this arrogant, stuck-up person that's too good for everyone and no good for anyone else."

"We're working on our first video, 'Freak,' and, ummm, we're all butt naked."

"Ben wants to answer this question, I don't know why"

"Why the f*ck would we want to sound like Nirvana? That question is starting to piss me off."

"No glossy photos!"

"Bedhead was a horrible thing."

"Just one of those things." -on the name silverchair

"Maybe, ummm, if, uh, worse comes to worse and we have to go and learn something, um, to keep ourselves alive, we might have to." -On whether or not any of them will go to college

"We were laughing, cause he almost had to get his eyebrow shaved."-- On the Santa Monica bottle incident

"I don't know how much money my parent's make!"

"Ben: leader of all wildness."

"We apologize greatly for the inconvenience."

"Sit and hang on tight." --if the world were to end in 10 minutes...

"Went to spit -- and spat on m'self." --Chris's most embarassing moment.

"Sh*t, I didn't get to see the Fonz."

Group Quotes

Guitar World: "When you're on tour, do you get a lot of older women coming on to you?"
Daniel: "We wish! No, we don't. We just play and get on the bus."
Chris: "I have a girlfriend, so I don't care about that stuff."
Guitar World: "Do you prefer girls more your own age?"
Daniel: "It depends."
Guitar World: "On the girl?"
Daniel: "Yeah. I mean, we're not total perverts. Well, Gillies is. His life revolves around the girls."
Guitar World: "But not yours?"
Daniel: "No."


Guitar World: "Why did the band name change from Innoncent Criminals to silverchair?"
Daniel: "That pretty well speaks for itself, if you look at the name Innocent Criminals. It sucks!"
Chris: "We wanted something a bit better."
Daniel: "Short Elvis was our best name ever."
Guitar World: "But you decided not to go with that one?"
Daniel: "No. We'd already had that. Me and Ben were called Short Elvis. Then we got Chris and we were called Innocent Criminals. Then we were called silverchair after that."


John Osterlind (interviewer from WAAF): "So, being from Australia, when you guys were kids, were like, Men At Work, like, really your favourite band?"
Chris: "Uhhh, not particularly. I really haven't heard Men At Work."

Interviewer:"How do they (the Germans) mosh?
Daniel: "I don't think they do.."
Ben: "They do."
Daniel: "They kinda do. I dunno, they're weird, the Germans."

*at first, i screwed this quote up big time, so here's the "correct" version:*
John Osterlind: (turning to chris) "You like older women...What do you think of the older women?"
Chris: "Yeah, uhh, Ben will get that one."
JOhn: (to Ben) "Ohh, thats you, you're the older women guy!"
Ben: "I like any women!"
John: (laughs) I just wanted to let you know that it's not just the younger women that like you guys."
Ben: "Ohhh, thats fine! Older, younger, a but of a variety. That's always good."


Interviewer: "You guys have a pretty thick schedule, I mean, you just got here this morning. Are you tired?"
Chris: "Nah, we took some sleeping pills on the plane."
Interviewer: "Isn't that how the Beatles got started on drugs? But before I accidentally lead anyone to think you're drugged out rock dummies, I'm sure you've already had tons of false press, what's the funniest thing you've read about yourselves that's totally untrue?"
Chris: "I supposedly had a heroin addiction! Also, some girl claimed to have taken Johnsy back to her house after one of the shows and...you know. It was actually quite funny 'cause it was in all these papers."


Daniel: "I've got a dog."
Interviewer: "You've got a dog?"
Daniel: "Yeah."
Interviewer: "I love my dog..."
Daniel: "I do actually."
Interviewer: "...are you familiar with Cat Stevens?"
Daniel: "Nah."
Interviewer: "Oh, he wrote a beautiful song about a dog."


Ben: "We met Flea first."
Kennedy: "Was he nice?"
Ben: "Yeah, he was pretty cool."
Kennedy: "Did he give you any advice?"
Ben: "No, we just talked for a while."
Kennedy: "That's beautiful."
Ben: "I know, it was touching."
Kennedy: "I can see that, here, let me wipe that tear from your eye."

John Osterlind: So, what do you guys say to critics when they compare you to Nirvana and stuff like that?"
Ben: "SHUT UP."
Chris: "Ummmm, maybe something a bit more tamer then that."


Daniel: "Yeah, uhh, Sabbath is probably my biggest influence."
Ben: "Noooo, Led Zeppelin would be your biggest influence Daniel."
Daniel: "No, it wouldn't, trust me."
Ben: "Uh..."
Daniel: "It's (Zeppelin) 2nd."
Ben: "No, they're NOT!"
Daniel: "Shut up!"


Daniel: "Do you realise you just endorsed a product?"
Ben: "Oh, I'm sorry."
Daniel: "No, it's ok, I liked it!"


Ben: "Mosh pits in Australia everyone just is out infront of the and they just jump up and down and that's all they do is jump up and down, but in the States there's like a circle and people just like run around in these big circles and theres all--"
Daniel: "I think they know, you don't have to explain what they do cause they're American."
Ben: "Ahh, shut up!"