In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like to be skeptical of people, and to be taken advantage of, especially by your friends. That's a hard… — 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