I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
FINNEASThe music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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The excuse of having a dog is great, because before I had a dog, I wouldn’t be like, ‘I need to go hike for two hours’; my girlfriend would have been like, ‘What are you doing?’ Now I take the dog, and she comes with me.
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I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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I just have no interest in being at a party.
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You know, that’s kind of always been our philosophy: not letting the place that we are get in the way of making great music.
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When we are making a song for Billie I want it to resonate and speak the truth with her and want it to be a piece of fabric she can wear.
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I stopped telling people what lyrics meant to them when I saw them tattoo it on them, because it clearly meant much more to them than it ever did to me.
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To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.
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The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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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.
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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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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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You go to a truck stop and there are key chains with names on them, and there’s no Finneas. There’s no Billie. They’re little things, but as a kid, you just feel weirdly ostracized.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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