About Daniel Johnston: Daniel Dale Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2005 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Johnston has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.
Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.
I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.
I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.
For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
