I think we’re always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
FINNEASWhat I really didn’t want to do is work with other people and have them go, ‘Oh, Finneas just does that sound for everybody.’ The Billie sound is only Billie – I’ll only do that for her.
More Finneas Quotes
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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’ve learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform.
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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 always wanted to be on tour or making albums.
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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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If you’re paying attention and you’ve been a good listener, you learn every day.
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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 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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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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We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.
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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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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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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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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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