- Suffering from a rare case of arthritis, which has prevented him from touring his new album, Diorama.
- Has suffered from anorexia, and vividly laments his battle with it in his beautiful song 'Ana's song' (Open Fire)
- Late Australian actor Heath Ledger said that Silverchair was one of his favorite Australian bands.
- Singer/Songwriter of hugely popular Australian rock/grunge band Silverchair.
- He came up with the name Silverchair, from two songs from his biggest musical influences - 'silver' is a spin on 'sliver' from Nirvana and the 'chair' comes from You am I's 'Berlin Chair'.
- Refuses to use pitch correction software on his music. While this technology corrects notes that are sung or played out of tune, it is Johns' personal belief that such artificial perfection diminishes music.
- Has a dog named Sweep.
- In an AT&T Blue Room interview in 2007, Silverchair discussed the actual origin of their band's name. They took the name from the C.S. Lewis book entitled "The Silver Chair". They admitted in the interview that they came up with what they thought was a good story, but realize now that it would have been much easier to just say it was from a book.
- The couple announced a joint statement saying their marriage is over and they simply grew apart from not being able to spend enough time together. Natalie is based in London and Daniel in Australia. (January 2008)
- Almost fully recovered from his terrible illness, Johns has announced the tour dates for Silverchair's Diorama. 'Across the night tour' will go throughout Australia in April 2003 - Johns proved how popular he still is when all the tickets to every single show sold out on the first day! (December 2002)
- Announced engagement to Natalie Imbruglia. (January 2003)
- Had seven top 10 singles in the Aria charts between 1995-2001, which is more than any other Australian act in the 1990s.
- Daniel is currently in New South Whales with Silverchair working on demos for their upcoming fifth album. (November 2005)
- Finished recording Silverchair's new album "Young Modern", and is taking a break before doing the final mixing. (December 2006)
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