Dan Smith Quotes

I want people to listen to my music all over the world and relate to it and feel it the way I feel it.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.

When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

It's amazing when I do a gig how many people of different ages come up to me afterwards and chat to me about songs. The emotions I feel are what any person can relate to. Sometimes I'm just a narrator.

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

Hopefully when you listen to a song, you can say, 'That's me,' or 'That's someone I know' - you relate to it in a way that's cathartic.

My favorite part about writing a song is really when it's released, and I can see that it relates to so many people.

Whether my lyrics are about love or something else, I always make sure I'm connecting with my fans, and to see their support is definitely a motivation.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

My favorite part is, once a song is out there to the public, having someone come up and tell their own story about why one of your songs resonated with them. It's an incredible feeling.

For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'