I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd had. So when I'm writing about relationships or somebody leaving you or something, a lot of lyrics are partly about failed relationships I'd had, but they were also about my Dad, and being abandoned as a kid.
Zachary Cole SmithFor me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.
Zachary Cole SmithThere 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.
Zachary Cole SmithMusic journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...
Zachary Cole Smith