Zachary Cole Smith Quotes
-
I've tried to be clear about who I am, and be as open as possible with the press, and speak extremely candidly and openly about stuff. I feel like in almost every instance, it's completely backfired, and I feel like people have all these kind of absurd ideas about the way I think about myself, and my own self-identity.
-
To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached.
-
I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.
-
Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.
-
There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.
-
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.
-
I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.
-
Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...
-
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.
-
I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all.
-
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.
-
My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.
-
All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.
-
There are just some things that you can't deny.
-
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.
-
I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.
-
We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.
-
I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience.
-
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.
-
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 writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.
-
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 to be a part of the festival.