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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.
Zachary Cole Smith
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Zachary Cole Smith
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: November 7
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To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached.
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People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.
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Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.
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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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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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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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The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written.
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I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.
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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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Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...
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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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There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.
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A record is worth 10,000 live shows.
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