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When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.

Zachary Cole Smith

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Zachary Cole Smith
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: November 7
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New York City
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I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.
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My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.
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There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.
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I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.
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I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.
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Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.
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The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more me.
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Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don't know why they take themselves so seriously.
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Somebody who knows all about how to make the record, or how to make records, they know how to work the EQ and they know how to work the stuff, but they don't know what I want it to sound like. So it's just easier for me to do it myself.
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Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...
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Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want.
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I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people, because I don't think that anybody knows anything about me at all. There's not much out there. I think I'm going to come out with a pretty dark and troubled record, and it might upset some people.
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What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.
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I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all.
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I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience.
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For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.
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A record is worth 10,000 live shows.
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