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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More Finneas Quotes
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Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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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I idolize my kid sister, so I get it. I understand why other people do too.
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When 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.
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I have nothing against reverb.
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I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.
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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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The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.
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I don’t really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.
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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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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’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.
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Well, predominately, if I’m writing for another artist, I’m sitting there with them and we’re writing it together.
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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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