I run our Twitter and Facebook pages, because I feel it’s important to maintain a personal relationship with fans. Dan Smith Read Quote
Saturday Night Live’ was 100% the most surreal TV we’ve ever done. Leonardo DiCaprio was on the same show. Dan Smith Read Quote
When we started making mixtapes, we were just ripping stuff off YouTube and DVDs, naively thinking that because we were putting it up for free, it was gonna be fine. Dan Smith Read Quote
Our favourite album that we always listen to in the car is ‘2001’ by Dr. Dre, which is just the ultimate album of all time. Dan Smith Read Quote
A lot of our songs are based in reality but imagined or using fictional characters as a way to write about something. I think inspiration comes from anything and everything, and it’s filtered through our brains, and it comes out sounding like our band. Dan Smith Read Quote
I remember being obsessed with ‘The Score’ by The Fugees. I used to listen to a lot of really melodic music with a lot of harmonies. The Beach Boys used to make me happy, and Simon and Garfunkel, and I used to listen to a lot of film soundtracks as well. Dan Smith Read Quote
There’s definitely a couple of people I’ll play stuff to when it’s nearly finished just to see what they think; Mark, our producer, his wife is Australian and just listens to the radio – she’s awesome – and, I guess, is quite a casual music listener. Dan Smith Read Quote
Playing new songs at festivals is weird, obviously. People at festivals are always a bit drunk, and probably just want to hear stuff they know by bands they love, or are checking you out and don’t know your stuff very well. Dan Smith Read Quote
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. Dan Smith Read Quote
