Linda M. Smith has and continues to approach her craft as a means to varied ends. Like she does so often with the subjects of her songs, Linda approaches music itself from a multiplicity of angles and vantage points.

She feels that music can have so much purpose in people's lives, believing that, "Music is there to soothe, stir contemplation, eroticism, and the emotions in people. It's there to energize the spirit and make you feel. It's there to offer a message and to help the listener create their own messages. Songs ground you. They place you in moments in time. Songs that affected me when I was twelve still have the power to place me back in those same emotional and intellectual states."

This isn't to say that Linda M. Smith is completely satisfied with the state of popular music. Linda thinks that while there is more variety out there than ever, most of contemporary music isn't great. She is particularly perturbed by the state of lyricism. For this she places much of the blame on the music industry who, "Doesn't support artists from the ground up", offering little guidance to those who want to make it. Instead of creating freely, she believes that "artists spend their time trying to figure out how to gain label support - how to fit into the industry's cookie cutter of the week." While deeming such considerations necessary, she dreads this part of the business, saying, "It distracts me from my real business which is writing and performing music."

To this end she refuses to retreat artistically. "Writing is always a type of healing," she states, and while she believes she has become less self expressive in her writing, expression still roots much of her musical outpour. "As I have progressed as a song writer I can look upon other experiences outside of myself, things don't have to be so personal. And yet, I often think I have written from a detached point of view but months later will read lyrics and realize there is much of my personal life in the song. I just did'nt realize it at the time." In her music there is always part of her experience there. It's as she says, "Even if the song is about something far away. It's me me me!"

In the end though it is the listener for whom she creates. "My music is for people interested in self examination, not just breasts", and while she jokes that "breasts, of course, are not excluded", they are certainly not the only thing interesting in her music.

Linda is an introspective person, always has been. She thinks her music relates to people who are introspective as well, that are trying to deal with the issues affecting their lives and move forward. There is a frankness in what she says, and somethimes it isn't always what people want to hear. She believes, however, "that there is a sense of hope in the end. It's never despair, its never like, oh my god, I'm never gonna get out of here. Cause, for me, when I get to figuring things out I want to figure a way out; a way out of whatever is painful or distressing. My music follows that totally."

Does her approach fit into pop music? When Linda listens to a lot of female artists she feels a real sense of their anger, but notes that she hears "anger without resolution". She constantly questions the affects of expressed negativity: "Don't people want resolution? Or, do they simply want to relate to anger? I think the mass audience are people on a path, people who are looking for resolution and that is why they relate very strongly to my music. I have many people tell me that they experience much of what I talk about in my songs and find they often feel that songs were written just for them." That connection is, in the end, why she started and why she contiues to write and perform her music.