I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
FINNEASI 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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We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.
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As 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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There’s no other person I like working with as much as my sister.
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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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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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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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Love has always been the most important thing to me and the thing by which my life is guided.
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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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I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.
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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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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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When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.
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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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I’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.
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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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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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Imagine if somebody was like, ‘Who’s the next Timothee Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s currently Timothee Chalamet.
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Working on TV shows was fun, but I felt crazy pressured and stressed.
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When I wrote ‘When the Party’s Over,’ it had a universal quality.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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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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For me, I’m going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.
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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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