All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy. — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected. — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in,… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
You can't show somebody what it's like to experience loss, but you can soundtrack it and help them experience their own loss.… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than...… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing. — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
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… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
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… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something. — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
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… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met... — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut. — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
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… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
I've already had a hard time dealing with some of the trappings of success and turned to some pretty stereotypical escape routes - ways… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
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… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy. — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
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… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work. — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
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… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share
