Zachary Cole Smith

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

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

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings…

— Zachary Cole Smith

Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.

— Zachary Cole Smith

When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.

— Zachary Cole Smith

My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I've tried to be clear about who I am, and be as open as possible with the press, and speak extremely candidly…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I…

— Zachary Cole Smith

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

— Zachary Cole Smith

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

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

People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

— Zachary Cole Smith

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

I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I…

— Zachary Cole Smith

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

There are just some things that you can't deny.

— Zachary Cole Smith

The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's…

— Zachary Cole Smith

Somebody who knows all about how to make the record, or how to make records, they know how to work the EQ…

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I feel like every great record is like a world in itself.

— Zachary Cole Smith

It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but…

— Zachary Cole Smith

What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the…

— Zachary Cole Smith

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.…

— Zachary Cole Smith

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

— Zachary Cole Smith