Zachary Cole Smith

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another…

— Zachary Cole Smith

Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being…

— Zachary Cole Smith

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

— Zachary Cole Smith

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…

— Zachary Cole Smith

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

— Zachary Cole Smith

It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.

— Zachary Cole Smith

Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just…

— Zachary Cole Smith

Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I've already had a hard time dealing with some of the trappings of success and turned to some pretty stereotypical escape routes…

— Zachary Cole Smith

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…

— Zachary Cole Smith

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

— Zachary Cole Smith

Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but…

— Zachary Cole Smith

There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.

— Zachary Cole Smith

It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.

— Zachary Cole Smith

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out…

— Zachary Cole Smith

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.

— Zachary Cole Smith

I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother.…

— Zachary Cole Smith

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

It's not like I had a breakdown, though it kind of felt like it at the time. I agreed to everything that…

— Zachary Cole Smith

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

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

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

— Zachary Cole Smith

In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like…

— Zachary Cole Smith