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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.

Finneas

For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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Myself Popular Song Try
I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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Institution Interest Myself Place Record
A lot of the time, in pop music especially, there’s reverb. And the reason is that reverb makes vocals sound better 99% of the time. It makes the notes ring out.
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Better Myself Reason Sound Time Vocal
The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.
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Forever Growth Listening Music Myself
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.
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Herself Instrument Myself People See
I don’t analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.
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Analyze Better Curiosity Song Thinking Writing
I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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Believe Mental Myself Person Preparation
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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Design Lyrics Myself People Tattoo
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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Chain Children Myself Shop Truck Weird
I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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Album Myself Travel
All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.
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Album Listening Myself Person Production
I have always loved Ben Folds, he’s like an idol of mine, a hero of mine.
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Hero Idol Love Myself
I’m not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.
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Control Day Myself
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.
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Children Enjoyment Happiness Life Myself Positive Scare
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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Guitar Instrument Myself Surprise
Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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Different Greatness Song Taste

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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