People don’t come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.
FINNEASUsually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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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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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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I really value just being able to go out and grab a coffee or going to a movie and not have anyone recognize me.
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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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I think it’s really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.
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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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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 always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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I 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.
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My dreams as a kid were so far below the Grammys, like, maybe selling out a show, or, like, seeing your album on a shelf in an Urban Outfitters… and the Grammys are so far above that. It’s very ridiculous.
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