Creativity Quote by Daniel Johns

"There are no big groupie fans or anything" lands with the offhand shrug of a musician trying to puncture the myth machine while it’s still humming. Daniel Johns isn’t describing a crowd so much as managing a narrative: the rock-star story that expects screaming girls, backstage conquests, and a steady feed of ego. The line is deliberately small, almost bored. That’s the point. By denying the cliché in such plain language, he refuses to perform the version of masculinity the genre traditionally sells.

The specific intent reads like a preemptive correction. For artists who came up in the late-90s/early-2000s alt-rock ecosystem, “authenticity” was currency, and nothing felt more suspicious than looking like you were enjoying the attention too much. Groupies aren’t just people in this framing; they’re a symbol of an industry script. Johns’ “or anything” is doing extra work, widening the denial beyond literal fans into a broader rejection of spectacle: no circus, no entourage energy, no tabloid-ready mythology.

The subtext is a quiet boundary. It signals discomfort with objectification (of fans and of the band), and it also protects the music from being reduced to gossip. There’s a defensive humility here, but also control: if the public wants a story, he’ll supply a less glamorous one. In a culture that rewards excess, the anti-excess becomes its own kind of stance - a way to stay legible as serious, even while being famous.