134 Quotes by Dan Smith

I'm massively obsessed with Frank Ocean, so it's always great when he decides to release music.

I write songs, but the guys play on them, they have opinions on them, and we tour together and spend all our time together.

I run our Twitter and Facebook pages, because I feel it's important to maintain a personal relationship with fans.

The mixtapes, and a lot of our music, it comes from a place of fandom and appreciation and of respect and of nodding toward stuff that we feel really affectionate towards.

Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.

There are moments, when you're playing your songs to thousands of people, which are amazingly satisfying. I'm very self-critical, so I find it hard to go along with moments like that.

I love David Lynch's style. Someone once thought I was his son, so I must have been doing an alright job at emulating it.

I once went on a date where the girl drove and so couldn't drink. I was nervous, so drank quite a bit - it didn't end amazingly. As much as I love movies, I think cinema dates can be weird because you essentially sit next to each other in silence for a couple of hours.

I don't necessarily feel 100 per cent comfortable standing up on stage in front of lots of people, but I don't think most people would. It's a pretty bizarre thing to do. It can also be absolutely incredible having thousands of people singing back lyrics that you might have written in your bedroom or wherever.