Corey Smith quotes:

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.

I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

I believe that most people aren't that different from one another. Although we might appear to be different on the surface, I think ultimately we all go through the same struggles.

I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.

In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

There are a lot of people who talk about a formula for being able to start a fan base. But for me, it's been about songs and just being hard on myself as a writer, feeling like there is a purpose to it all.