“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.” WayHardRealityFallMy OwnSituationHard TimesRoutesEscaping Author: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 get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.” PeopleWayAttentionFiveMinutesHugeListeningWindowPatientSecondsFive Minutes Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“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.” IdeasInspirationCultureRecordsHappenedDrugSan FranciscoDrug Culture Author: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 already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don't know why they take themselves so seriously.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindDoneTodayStuffRecordsSavages Author: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. 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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMightDarkRecordsSurpriseUpset Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“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.” PeopleIfsWantArtPastStuffShareMonthsCouple Author: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 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.” PeopleFeelsKindI CanHardHelpingTogetherArtistTermKnowingTakenSkyFiguresAdvantageSavedRelatePillsSkepticalTaken Advantage Author:Zachary Cole Smith
