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A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

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Zachary Cole Smith
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: November 7
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Guitarist
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New York City
New York
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Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money.
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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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It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.
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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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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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If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.
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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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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'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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When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.
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[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.
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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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Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...
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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 a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.
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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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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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I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
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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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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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