I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from. Zachary Cole Smith More Quotes by Zachary Cole Smith More Quotes From 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 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. Zachary Cole Smith who-i-am self thinking What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous. Zachary Cole Smith records albums lasts 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. Zachary Cole Smith different giving people Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could. Zachary Cole Smith albums average years 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. Zachary Cole Smith wall fashion mom People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window. Zachary Cole Smith listening attention people I feel like every great record is like a world in itself. Zachary Cole Smith records feels world 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. Zachary Cole Smith fear-of-death emotion thinking 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. Zachary Cole Smith empowering bullshit thinking 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. Zachary Cole Smith funny-things musician writing 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. Zachary Cole Smith hard-times reality fall There are just some things that you can't deny. Zachary Cole Smith deny 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 to pill to swallow, and we've been through that together, or watched each other go through it. It helps to have somebody that close to you who can relate. I can say with some confidence that I feel like Sky saved my life. Zachary Cole Smith knowing artist taken All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy. Zachary Cole Smith making-people-happy trying people A record is worth 10,000 live shows. Zachary Cole Smith records shows It's not like I had a breakdown, though it kind of felt like it at the time. I agreed to everything that happened. You can't really be at work and be like, "That's it. I've had too much. I'm going home." Zachary Cole Smith too-much kind home 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 clothes fashion love-is 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. Zachary Cole Smith notebook drawing writing I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one. Zachary Cole Smith grandmother mom boys Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary. Zachary Cole Smith recovery culture thinking
