O lana 2001 album Healing Is Difficult lyrically deals with Pontifex's death: "I was pretty fucked up after Dan died. I couldn't really feel anything. I could intellectualize a lot of stuff; that I had a purpose, that I was loved, but I couldn't really feel anything". Sia recalled his death in a 2007 interview for The Sunday Times: "We were all devastated, we got shit-faced on various occasions". Na toe fo'i o ia i Ausetalia, ae na vave ona maua se telefoni mai se tasi o Pontifex's former housemates, o le na vala'auina o ia e nofo i Lonetona. O lana 2001 album Healing Is Difficult lyrically deals with Pontifex's death: "I was pretty fucked up after Dan died. I couldn't really feel anything. I could intellectualize a lot of stuff; that I had a purpose, that I was loved, but I couldn't really feel anything". Sia recalled his death in an interview for The Sunday Times: "We were all devastated, we got shit-faced
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