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It's pretty easy to lose money...

It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.

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I've already had a hard time d...

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 clichГ©d situations.

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Generally, I think people are ...

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.

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I had these glorified ideas ab...

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.

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People are going to be way mor...

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.

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I don't know if there's anythi...

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.

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It's totally true: Ariel, Chri...

It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.

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We were a commodity used by co...

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

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I went with Beach Fossils and ...

I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.

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If I play Coachella, it's spon...

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

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[YSL creative director] Hedi [...

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.

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The idea is: You played to 100...

The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, 'Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow.' It's more like, 'Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver.'

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Nobody really wanted to do tha...

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.

Zachary Smith 57 quotes

The touring band is DIIV, and ...

The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more 'me.'

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Some kid can say, 'Hey, I rea...

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.

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A record is worth 10,000 live ...

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

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I spent my life working before...

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

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It's not like I had a breakdow...

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.'

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There's all these people invol...

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.

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It's this funny thing now: You...

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.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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