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Zachary Cole Smith

Zachary Cole Smith (born November 7, 1984) is an American musician, model and music video director, best known for being the frontman of DIIV. He first began playing in bands like Soft Black, Darwin Deez and Beach Fossils after moving to New York City in the late 2000s. Smith released his debut studio album with DIIV, Oshin, in 2012, which combined elements of krautrock, post-punk and shoegaze. He has directed music videos for DIIV and Sky Ferreira. Outside of his work in the music industry, Smith has modeled for Saint Laurent on multiple occasions. DIIV's second studio album, Is the Is Are, was released on February 5, 2016.

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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.

Important, Kurt, School, Syntax, Words, Writing

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

Band, Construction, Demolition, Kitchen, Life, Working

I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.

Believe, Fell, Like, Mean, Passion

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.

Freedom Of Speech, Opportunity, People, Pore, Thing

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

Clothes, Fashion, Interesting, Love, Love Is

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

Expected, Multimedia, Music, Music Is, Thing

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.

Able, Done, Everything, Make, Records

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. There's not much out there. I think I'm going to come out with a pretty dark and troubled record, and it might upset some people.

Come, Dark, People, Pretty, Thinking, Troubled

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

Actual, Attention, Hard, Hard Work, Negative

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 lost a lot of money.

Lost, Made, Nobody, Tour, Wanted

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.

Core, Emotion, Existence, Fear Of Death, Think, Thinking

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.

Albums, Average, Double, Three, Years

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

Dull, Journalists, Lazy, People

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.

Cliched, Dealing, Escaping, Fall, Hard Times, Reality

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.

Artist, Confidence, Helps, Knowing, Life, Taken

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

Deny, Things

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.

Funny, Funny Things, Musician, Spend, Writing

Some kid can say, "Hey, I really want you to play my town in Switzerland, or Sweden, or Latvia," and they could have a fun night at the show. On the other hand, all those kids could have a record that means something to them in a more personal way a couple months down the road. The live band is a really important thing for us, but my focus is on the album now.

Couple, Focus, Fun, Kid, Mean, Switzerland

Somebody who knows all about how to make the record, or how to make records, they know how to work the EQ and they know how to work the stuff, but they don't know what I want it to sound like. So it's just easier for me to do it myself.

Records, Somebody, Sound, Want, Work

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.

Fashion, Mom, Rubbed, Wall, Worked, Yves

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