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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.
Zachary Cole Smith
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Zachary Cole Smith
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: November 7
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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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I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.
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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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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 journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...
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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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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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There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.
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When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.
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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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It's not like I had a breakdown, though it kind of felt like it at the time. I agreed to everything that happened. You can't really be at work and be like, That's it. I've had too much. I'm going home.
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