I feel like the thing that I’ve learned a lot is when you’re involved in something, you don’t always get to appreciate it for what it is as much. You’re focused on the details and how you can make it better. It’s kind of torture.
FINNEASAs soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like ‘I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.’ And I’m always like, ‘Absolutely not.’
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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I came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is the future!’ And I’ve never seen it again.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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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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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 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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If I have experienced something in my life, it’s probably going to be written about, and I don’t particularly care if the person I’m writing about wants to be written about.
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Our mom cooks well, and we cook poorly. We try.
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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
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Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.
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I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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