People were like, ‘he’s collaborating with Taylor Swift’ and I was like, ‘I am?’ I think she’s wonderful. Her songwriting has inspired me for years.
FINNEASI don’t particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don’t want to be bound to a studio to who we’d have to pay untold sums to.
More Finneas Quotes
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Obviously I’m very grateful ‘Bad Guy’ is doing so well – it’s shocking and surprising and gratifying – but I do think it’s important to try to make the next song that people are gonna be excited about.
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I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly.
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I never get tired of writing about love.
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I don’t think if you set out to make an album to get a bunch of Grammy nominations… you just have to set out to make an album you’ll really love.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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There’s always a better word than a swear word.
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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music’s going to be made.
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What I really didn’t want to do is work with other people and have them go, ‘Oh, Finneas just does that sound for everybody.’ The Billie sound is only Billie – I’ll only do that for her.
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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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The amount of times I’ve been told something by artists I’m working with, which I’m sure they haven’t told even their significant other or families, is shocking.
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I feel like a lot of music producers have, like, the same toolbox. And I think, like, to me, as a producer, like, I want something to set my stuff apart.
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