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People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.
Zachary Cole Smith
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Zachary Cole Smith
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: November 7
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You can't show somebody what it's like to experience loss, but you can soundtrack it and help them experience their own loss. I am so lucky to have this venue to be able to say and talk about all the stuff I've been through.
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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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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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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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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 spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.
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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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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'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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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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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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I grew up around fashion - my mom was an editor for Vogue. Compared to the music industry, though, I'd say [fashion] is a little bit more disorganized. But it's exciting for me because, when you're a performer, there is a fashion element.
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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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All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.
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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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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 feel like every great record is like a world in itself.
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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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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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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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