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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.

Zachary Cole Smith

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Zachary Cole Smith
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: November 7
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I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.
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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 didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd had. So when I'm writing about relationships or somebody leaving you or something, a lot of lyrics are partly about failed relationships I'd had, but they were also about my Dad, and being abandoned as a kid.
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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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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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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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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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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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I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.
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I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.
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I've already had a hard time dealing with some of the trappings of success and turned to some pretty stereotypical escape routes - ways of escaping my own reality and falling into some pretty clichéd situations.
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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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All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.
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Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could.
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Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.
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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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One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.
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