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.
FINNEASI am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly.
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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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It’s important to recognize when a song remains important to you.
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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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If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it’s still best to do it in a studio.
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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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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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I usually don’t like to annoy people in asking to work with them.
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I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
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Everybody has different taste and everyone’s favourite song is different and that’s great.
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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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I’m just obsessed with music I guess.
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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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You know, I grew up very self-taught.
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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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All my favorite songs ever are love songs. Probably topped by ‘The Luckiest’ by Ben Folds.
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