134 Quotes by Dan Smith

To be honest, I'm always really interested when people say they can relate to our songs. On the first album, that wasn't something I'd ever anticipated or thought about.

There's a part of me that wants to let all the different moments of 'Wild World' to have their moment and be released properly.

There are so many different points to 'Wild World,' and it sounds quite different to what people would expect from us.

One of the best things about being in a band is that we're so lucky to be able to travel the world. It takes us to all these cities that we've never seen before.

I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.

I listen to unhealthy amount of Kanye. The Fugees. Also, 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.'

'The Shining' is operatic and sensational and... really shocking. It has this amazing meld of classical music and modern interpretations of classical music, and incredible imagery. From the set design to the costumes, there's so much to unpack.

In 'Good Grief', in trying to create this sense of the huge downs and ups, stumbles of this process, we're almost using the music to make it uplifting, so it's not completely hopeless.

There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that's almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings at once.