“There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.” HardEasyAttentionHard WorkNegativeNegative Attention Author: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 for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down.” PeopleIfsWorldWantWritingLittlesHardSongMy OwnRecordsWeekFeetHugeInvolvedMachinesMarchTake TimeFestivalsJuneAprilJulyCircuits Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“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
“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
