Dan Smith Quotes

I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.

Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.

When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person.

Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.

I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.

We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

It's always ideal if the production that you're taking out on tour is the one that you spent two weeks rehearsing with, and you just do the same show thirty nights in a row.

With Rihanna, it's always a collaboration, and that's why I love her so much.

If somebody needed a guitar player for a tour and I was free and it was the right situation, I'd do it and it would be good fun. There would be much less pressure if I just had to stand there and play leads.

We all had our strengths. I focused on mine, which was kind of the business side of things and more about the touring and the creative... Nick was all about the music, and Joe was about the entertainment aspect and the music.

I have my little entourage of who I travel with, some friends and people who help me more technically on the track. Obviously, my engineers who I work closely with, we are all in the ship together.

We've been touring ever since we were able to afford to buy a van, and I don't think we'll ever stop until something falls off or is irreparable.

We love touring. We love being in front of the fans.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

I wish that I will get to work with Gopi Sundar again and again.

The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.

As soon as I'm in the studio for too long, I wanna be out on tour.

Amaal is a music composer, and I am singer, so I think we compliment each other rather than competing with each other.

I would love to work with Calvin Harris because I think he's a really good songwriter and producer and he does everything, which I like.

When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part of a team of artists. So I think like a filmmaker more than a composer.

For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole lot.