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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.

Zachary Cole Smith

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Zachary Cole Smith
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: November 7
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I've tried to be clear about who I am, and be as open as possible with the press, and speak extremely candidly and openly about stuff. I feel like in almost every instance, it's completely backfired, and I feel like people have all these kind of absurd ideas about the way I think about myself, and my own self-identity.
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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 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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It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.
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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'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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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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Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.
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I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.
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I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do.
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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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I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.
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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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A record is worth 10,000 live shows.
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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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We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.
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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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It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.
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I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
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