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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.
Zachary Cole Smith
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Zachary Cole Smith
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: November 7
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I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people, because I don't think that anybody knows anything about me at all. There's not much out there. I think I'm going to come out with a pretty dark and troubled record, and it might upset some people.
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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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I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.
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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 just some things that you can't deny.
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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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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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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 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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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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It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.
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Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...
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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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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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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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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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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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A record is worth 10,000 live shows.
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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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