Daniel Smith Quotations

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.

I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit.

I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream 'secular' press has been very, very nice.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

I always say the connection is in the blood and it is true, but I believe it is mostly in the Spirit and in the relationships we have.

I'm so excited, I can't even explain it. I had been around two minutes all year. Not in my wildest dreams did I expect to go five seconds under. When I looked up at the clock and saw my time, I was surprised and amazed.

The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that's nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head.

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip-off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.

In 1993 the Lord re-arrested my heart and fell in love with him all over again. I finally understood that who I am is his son.

If our form of expression comes out of blatant robbery then we as the messenger are open for justified criticism of our message.

I'm on cloud nine. It's amazing. (The 100 backstroke) has been my key race all year. I just thought back to times when I exceeded my expectations and tried to do the same thing.

It's very, very important symbolically to have Chicago become smoke free because it's the leader in the Midwest and it will have a trickle down effect. This is part of a national trend this is just now starting in the Midwest.

I guess my experience with God had to be without external influences because I certainly wasn't listening to anyone but my selfish self.

There's a lot of faux populism, ... You look at the moneyed interests behind (Schwarzenegger's) measures, behind the (prescription drugs), and you realize this is not just the citizens' voice.

There's a lot of faux populism. You look at the moneyed interests behind (Schwarzenegger's) measures, behind the (prescription drugs), and you realize this is not just the citizens' voice.