I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn’t enjoy being a child very much. I felt that I had no control over my life and everything seemed scarier and larger than life.
FINNEASWhen 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.
More Finneas Quotes
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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I have nothing against reverb.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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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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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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I love pop songs so much and I don’t put a ton of pressure on myself as a solo artist to always write the most commercial feeling thing, I just want to write things I would love to listen to.
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I feel like you’re able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is coming in, telling us a song isn’t a smash.
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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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.
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If you’re thinking about all the possibilities of your life, there are extreme negatives, which you hope don’t happen, and extreme positives, which you just aren’t willing to think about because you think you’ll jinx it.
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